Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Coin | |
Name: | 1937 56 | |
Title: | Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Half Tetarteron of Andronicus I, Uncertain Greek Mint (AD 1183 - AD 1185) | |
Year: | 1937 | |
Coin Number: | 56 | |
Period: | Byzantine | |
Material: | AE | |
Denomination: | Half Tetarteron | |
Mint: | Uncertain Greek | |
Authority: | Andronicus I | |
Comments: | Imitative | |
Obverse Legend: | ||
Obverse Type: | Bust of Virgin nimbate orans, wearing tunic and maphorion; beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast | |
Reverse Legend: | ||
Reverse Type: | Bust of emperor wearing stemma, skaramangion or divitision, and sagion; holds in r. hand labarum-headed scepter, and in l. gl. cr. | |
Axis Clock: | 6 | |
Diameter: | 16 | |
Chronology: | AD 1183 - AD 1185 | |
Findspot Description: | So. Stoa W. Excavation Date: 9/15/1937, #29-39 Notebook 170, p. 31, . | |
Notes: | Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Imitation? | |
Reference: | DOC IV.1, p. 353, 8; Hendy, p. 134, pl.19, 4; BMC, p. 586, type 3; Edwards, p. 146, 152 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Image: digital 2010 0813 Image: digital 2010 0814 Image: digital 2010 0815 |