Corinth Coin: 1936 72
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1936 72
Title:   Coin
    Byzantine Billon Coin of Theodore Comnenus Ducas, 1224-1230, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1224 - AD 1230)
Year:   1936
Coin Number:   72
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   Bi
Mint:   Thessalonika
Authority:   Theodore Comnenus Ducas, 1224-1230
Obverse Legend:    IC / OE / MM / A – XC / NOV (in ligature) / HL, in field
Obverse Type:   Bust of Christ Emmanuel, beardless and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds scroll in l. hand, pellets in each limb of nimbus cross
Reverse Legend:    [U]E[O]DVROC DECPOTH C KOMNHNOC O DOV(in ligature)KAC
Reverse Type:   Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, paneled loros of simplified type, and sagion; holds in r. hand labarum-headed scepter, and in l. globus surmounted by single-or double-barred cross. Manus Dei in upper r. field.
Axis Clock:   6
Diameter:   31
Chronology:   AD 1224 - AD 1230
Findspot Description:   South Basilica
Excavation Date: 3/6/1936, #18
Notebook 153, p. 16, .
Notes:   Record generated from NB catalogue.
    Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Card #479
Reference:   DOC IV.2, p. 559, 10; Hendy, p. 271, pl. 38, 8-9
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 1348
Image: digital 2010 1349
Image: digital 2010 1350
Notebook Page: NB 153, spread 16 (pp. 16 - 17)