Corinth Coin: 1997 217
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1997 217
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Trachy of Manuel I (AD 1180)
    Coin
Year:   1997
Coin Number:   217
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Trachy
Authority:   Manuel I
Comments:   Type A, Imitative Series
Obverse Legend:   M, L, D, [K]
Obverse Type:   Monogram (peudent P)
Reverse Legend:   no inscription
Reverse Type:   Traces of bust of emperor, beardless, wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and panelled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. globus cruciger
Axis Clock:   11
Weight Description:   0.51
Weight:   0.51
Diameter:   17
Chronology:   AD 1180
Context:   NB904 B23 P37
Findspot Description:   Forum SW, 70:2Y, Soil with pebbles, El. 85.186 (floor)
Excavation Date: 5/22/1997
Basket 23
Notebook 904, p. 37, .
    NB904 B23 P37, .
Elevation:   85.186
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Imitation
octagonal clip
    Record generated from NB catalogue.
Reference:   cf. DOC IV.1, p. 335, 22; cf. Hendy, p.121, pl. 18, 1-2; BMC, p. 580, type 7
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Images (7)