Corinth Coin: 1937 57
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1937 57
Title:   Byzantine Billon Aspron Trachy Nomisma of Alexius III Angelus-Comnenus, 1195-1203, Constantinople Mint (AD 1195 - AD 1203)
Year:   1937
Coin Number:   57
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   Bi
Denomination:   Aspron Trachy Nomisma
Mint:   Constantinople
Authority:   Alexius III Angelus-Comnenus, 1195-1203
Obverse Legend:    [KERO HUEI] . In field, IC – XC
Obverse Type:   Beardless, nimbate bust of Christ, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds scroll in l. hand. Pellets in each limb of nimbus cross.
Reverse Legend:   no inscription
Reverse Type:   Full-length figure of emperor on l. and of St. Constantine, nimbate, holding between them gl. cr. Both wear stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; both hold labarum-headed scepter.
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   3.105
Weight:   3.105
Diameter:   31
Chronology:   AD 1195 - AD 1203
Findspot Description:   So. Stoa W.
Excavation Date: 9/15/1937, #11-28
Notebook 170, p. 30, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
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Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 407-8, 3; Hendy, p. 151, pl. 23, 1-7; Edwards, p. 147, 156
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 0862
Image: digital 2010 0863
Image: digital 2010 0864