Corinth Coin: 1929 1925
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1929 1925
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Trachy (AD 1204)
Year:   1929
Coin Number:   1925
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Trachy
Comments:   Imitative
Obverse Legend:    [M]-R - U[V] in upper field
Obverse Type:   Virgin nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, seated upon throne with back; holds beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast
Reverse Legend:   [LLEJIOC] DECPOT
Reverse Type:   Emperor seated upon throne without back, wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and paneled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum-headed scepter, and in left anexikakia. Manus Dei in upper right field.
Axis Clock:   7
Weight Description:   1.015
Weight:   1.015
Diameter:   23
Chronology:   AD 1204
Findspot Description:   Market N of Temple
Excavation Date: 7/18/1929, #16-30
Notebook 105, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Card #1925. Latin Imitative, Type C, small module
Reference:   Hendy, p. 198, pl. 29, 7-9
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 1498
Image: digital 2010 1499
Image: digital 2010 1500