Corinth Coin: 1926 515
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:   [OGE VP(in ligature) – GIOW]
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:   [MANOY(in ligature)HL DECPOTH]
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