Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Coin | |
Name: | T 1925 211 | |
Title: | Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Follis of Anonymous Series B, Uncertain Mint (AD 1085 - AD 1092) | |
Year: | 1925 | |
Coin Number: | 211 | |
Period: | Byzantine | |
Material: | AE | |
Denomination: | Follis | |
Mint: | Uncertain | |
Authority: | Anonymous Series B | |
Comments: | Imitative (cut-down?) | |
Obverse Legend: | No legend; [IC]-X[C]. | |
Obverse Type: | Christ bust, facing, cr.-nimbus w. 5 pellets in each arm; [r.hand raised in blessing within sling; l.hand holds book.] | |
Reverse Legend: | [IS-XS] / [b]AS-ILE / [b]AS-ILE, within corners of cross. | |
Reverse Type: | Cross on base and two steps, upper arms end in pellets. | |
Under Type: | possibly overstruck? | |
Axis Clock: | 6 | |
Weight Description: | 3.55 | |
Weight: | 3.55 | |
Diameter: | 25 | |
Chronology: | AD 1085 - AD 1092 | |
Findspot Description: | Theater Excavation Date: 04/27/1925, . | |
Notes: | Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. DOC: 11th c. imitation, ca.1090. Possibly cut-down? | |
Reference: | DOC III, p.680. | |
Published: | Hesperia 1987, p. 140, 660. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: MacIsaac, Hesperia 56:2, 1987 Images (5) |