Corinth Coin: 1931 675
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1931 675
Title:   Coin
    Byzantine Billon Coin of Manuel Comnenus-Ducas, 1230-1237 (AD 1230 - AD 1237)
Year:   1931
Coin Number:   675
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   Bi
Authority:   Manuel Comnenus-Ducas, 1230-1237
Obverse Legend:   X – X / AR(in ligature) – M
Obverse Type:   Half-length figure of archangel Michael nimbate, wearing divitision, collar-piece, and paneled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand sword, resting over shoulder, and in l., sheath
Reverse Legend:   MANON(in ligature)HL LC - OAGIOC KOC
Reverse Type:   Full-length figure of emperor and St. Constantine, holding between then patriarchal cross on long shaft at the base of which, three steps. Ruler holds palm-frond in r. hand. Saint holds palm-frond in l. hand.
Under Type:   reverse double struck
Axis Clock:   5
Diameter:   29
Chronology:   AD 1230 - AD 1237
Findspot Description:   New Museum
Excavation Date: 3/19/1931, #1
Notebook 116, p. 63, .
Notes:   Andronicus I and Manuel I. Record generated from NB catalogue.
    Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
reverse double struck
Card #149
Reference:   DOC IV.2, p. 574, 6; Hendy, p. 276, pl. 39, 7; Edwards (1936), p. 103-105; Grierson, pl. 74, 1208
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 1361
Image: digital 2010 1362
Image: digital 2010 1363
Notebook Page: NB 116, spread 37 (pp. 63 - 64)