Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Coin | |
Name: | 1926 515 | |
Title: | Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Half Tetarteron of Manuel I (AD 1143 - AD 1180) | |
Year: | 1926 | |
Coin Number: | 515 | |
Period: | Byzantine | |
Material: | AE | |
Denomination: | Half Tetarteron | |
Authority: | Manuel I | |
Comments: | Type B, Imitative Series | |
Obverse Legend: | ||
Obverse Type: | Bust of St. George, beardless and nimabte, wearing tunic, breastplate, and sagion; holds in r. hand spear, and in l. shield | |
Reverse Legend: | ||
Reverse Type: | Bust of emperor, bearded, wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum-headed scepter, and in l., globus cruciger | |
Axis Clock: | 6 | |
Weight Description: | 1.30 | |
Weight: | 1.30 | |
Diameter: | 15 | |
Chronology: | AD 1143 - AD 1180 | |
Findspot Description: | Peribolos, E. Side Excavation Date: 6/4 and 7/1926 Notebook 90, p. 21 and 25, . | |
Notes: | Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Imitation Found in box with 1926-768. Only one card made for the 2 coins originally. Separated 2/13/2000. | |
Reference: | DOC IV.1, p. 337, 23; Hendy, p. 121-122, pl. 18, 3-4; BMC, p. 579, type 6 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Image: digital 2010 0771 Image: digital 2010 0772 Image: digital 2010 0773 |