Corinth Coin: 1996 102
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1996 102
Title:   Coin
    Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Trachy (AD 1204 - AD 1261)
Year:   1996
Coin Number:   102
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Trachy
Comments:   Imitative
Obverse Legend:   [ M-R - UV]
Obverse Type:   Virgin nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, seated upon throne with back; holds beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast
Reverse Legend:   [MLNOVHL / MLNOVHL - DECPOTHC / PORFVROGEN]
Reverse Type:   Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, and chlamys; holds in lowered r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. anexikakia
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   1.155
Weight:   1.155
Diameter:   19
Chronology:   AD 1204 - AD 1261
Context:   NB884 B34 P51
Findspot Description:   NB884 B34 P51, .
    Temple E/SE, Grid 81C/82C, General fill
Excavation Date: 4/29/1996
Basket 34,
Notebook 884, p. 51, .
Elevation:   85.77
Area:   Temple E, Southeast
Notes:   Record generated from NB catalogue.
    Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Unusual iconography on the reverse - r. hand lowered instead of raised. Latin Imitative, Type A, small module
Reference:   Hendy, p. 198, pl. 29, 1-3
Published:   Hesperia 1997, p. 184
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Zervos, Hesperia 66:2, 1997a
Publication: Zervos, Hesperia 66:2, 1997b
Image: digital 2010 1479
Image: digital 2010 1480
Image: digital 2010 1481