Corinth Coin: T 1926 1389
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   T 1926 1389
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Coin, Constantinople Mint (AD 1204 - AD 1261)
Year:   1926
Coin Number:   1389
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Mint:   Constantinople
Comments:   Imitative
Obverse Legend:    M-R - [UV H LGIOCOPITICA]
Obverse Type:   Full-length figure of Virgin Hagiosoritissa nimbate, orans, turned to r. wearing tunic and maphorion. Manus Dei in upper r. field
Reverse Legend:   [O LGIOC PETROC O LGIOC PLVLOC
Reverse Type:   Full-length figures of Saints Peter (l.) and Paul (r.), nimbate, wearing tunic and colobion, embracing one another. Peter has short beard and Paul a long one.
Under Type:   Overstruck on uncertain
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   3.94
Weight:   3.94
Diameter:   23
Chronology:   AD 1204 - AD 1261
Findspot Description:   Theater, East Cavea, VII, on. orchestra level
Excavation Date: 5/31/1926, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Latin imitation, large module, of Byzantine Trachy, Type N. .
coin possibly mixed up with another?. Latin Imitative - Type T
Reference:   Hendy, p. 196, pl. 27, 10-11
Published:   Hesperia 1987, p. 147, 692
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: MacIsaac, Hesperia 56:2, 1987