Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Coin | |
Name: | 1959 1138 | |
Title: | Byzantine Billon Aspron Trachy Nomisma of Andronicus I, 1183-1185, Constantinople Mint (AD 1183 - AD 1185) | |
Coin | ||
Year: | 1959 | |
Coin Number: | 1138 | |
Period: | Byzantine | |
Material: | Bi | |
Denomination: | Aspron Trachy Nomisma | |
Mint: | Constantinople | |
Authority: | Andronicus I, 1183-1185 | |
Obverse Legend: | ||
Obverse Type: | Full-length figure of Virgin nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, standing on dais; holds beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast | |
Reverse Legend: | ||
Reverse Type: | Full-length emperor on crowned by nimbate Christ. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type. Holds in r. hand labarum-headed scepter, in l. hand gl. cr. Christ wears tunic and kolobion, holds Gospels in l. hand. | |
Axis Clock: | 6 | |
Diameter: | 30 | |
Chronology: | AD 1183 - AD 1185 | |
Context: | NB210 B21 P118 | |
Findspot Description: | Agora-SW Excavation Date: 4/23/1959, #49 Basket 21 Notebook 210, p. 118, . | |
NB210 B21 P118, . | ||
Area: | Forum | |
Notes: | Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Fine piece | |
Record generated from NB catalogue. | ||
Reference: | DOC IV.1, p. 348, 3; Hendy, p. 133, pl. 18, 15-16 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Image: digital 2010 0777 Image: digital 2010 0778 Image: digital 2010 0779 Basket: NB210 B21 P118 Notebook Page: NB 210, spread 64 (pp. 118 - 119) |