Corinth Coin: 1961 717
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1961 717
Title:   Coin
    Byzantine Copper/Bronze Half Tetarteron of Isaac II, Angelus, 1185-1195, Uncertain Greek Mint (AD 1185 - AD 1195)
Year:   1961
Coin Number:   717
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Half Tetarteron
Mint:   Uncertain Greek
Authority:   Isaac II, Angelus, 1185-1195
Obverse Legend:   no inscription
Obverse Type:   [Bust of archangel Michael, beardless and nimbate, wearing divitsion, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand jeweled scepter, and in l. gl. cr.]
Reverse Legend:   no inscription
Reverse Type:   Bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; [holds in r. hand scepter cruciger, and in l. anexikakia]
Weight Description:   0.74
Weight:   0.74
Diameter:   14
Chronology:   AD 1185 - AD 1195
Context:   NB228 B7 P125
Findspot Description:   NB228 B7 P125, .
    Agora SW - E
Excavation Date: 5/24/1961, #12
Basket 7
Notebook 223, p. 103
Notebook 228, p. 125, .
Area:   Forum
Notes:   Record generated from NB catalogue.
    Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 391, 6; cf. Hendy, p. 145, pl. 21, 10; BMC, p. 597, type 3
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 0825
Image: digital 2010 0826
Image: digital 2010 0827
Basket: NB228 B7 P125
Notebook Page: NB 228, spread 67 (pp. 124 - 125)