Corinth Coin: 1936 1800
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1936 1800
Title:   Venetian Copper/Bronze Coin of Venetian Colonial, Crete? Mint (AD 1688)
Year:   1936
Coin Number:   1800
Period:   Venetian
Material:   AE
Mint:   Crete?
Authority:   Venetian Colonial
Obverse Legend:   OAGIOSMARKOS
Obverse Type:   Lion of St. Mark, facing, nimbate, striding l., holds book; book & rear paw overlap pellet border.
Reverse Legend:   IVAN.KORNHLIOSODOY[J]; in center, TORNESIA / EJHNTA
Reverse Type:   Outer insciption within double-pellet borders; central 2-line legend, with 5-petal rosette flanked by 6-point stars above, 5-petal rosette below.
Symbol:   Obv.: in ex. *IIII* (flanked by 6-point stars)
Axis Clock:   2
Diameter:   28
Chronology:   AD 1688
Findspot Description:   South Stoa M
Excavation Date: 03/17/1936, #12-13
Notebook 151 (Broneer), p.77.
Card #386, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Date suggested on card as "after 1688?" - but the Ottoman conquest of Crete was completed by 1669. (M.D.H. 06/17/2010)
Reference:   Tzamalis, Nom.Hellen.Chron., p.112, B58.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Images (6)