Corinth Coin: 1961 529
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1961 529
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Coin of Manuel I
Year:   1961
Coin Number:   529
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Authority:   Manuel I
Comments:   Type B, Imitative Series
Obverse Legend:   [OGE - VP(in ligature)GIOW]
Obverse Type:   Bust of St. George, beardless and nimabte, wearing tunic, breastplate, and sagion; holds in r. hand spear, and in l. shield
Reverse Legend:   [MANOY(in ligature)HL DECPOT]
Reverse Type:   Bust of emperor, bearded, wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum-headed scepter, and in l., globus cruciger
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   0.58
Weight:   0.58
Diameter:   15
Findspot Description:   Agora SW-E
Excavation Date: 5/16/1961, no. 17
Notebook 223, p. 78, modern fill, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Imitation
octagonal clip (hybrid)
Reference:   cf. DOC IV.1, p. 337, 23; cf. Hendy, p. 121, pl. 18, 3-4 Wroth II, p. 579, type 6
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 0932
Image: digital 2010 0933
Image: digital 2010 0934