Corinth Coin: 1963 175
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1963 175
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Coin of Manuel I, 1143-1180 – Type B, Uncertain Greek Mint (AD 1143 - AD 1180)
Year:   1963
Coin Number:   175
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Mint:   Uncertain Greek
Authority:   Manuel I, 1143-1180 – Type B
Obverse Legend:   OGE [VP(in ligature)] – [GI]O[W]
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] DEC[POT]]
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
Diameter:   19
Chronology:   AD 1143 - AD 1180
Context:   NB264 B3 P19
Findspot Description:   Agora SW - H, Room 1, Locus 1609
Excavation Date: 6/4/1963, #4
Basket 3
Notebook 236, p. 182
Notebook 264, p. 19, NB264 B3 P19, .
Area:   Forum southwest
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
clipped
Negative 68-150-3
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 337, 23; Hendy, p. 121-122, pl. 18, 3-4; BMC, p. 579, type 6
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 0699
Image: digital 2010 0700
Image: digital 2010 0701