Corinth Coin: 1968 1006
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1968 1006
Title:   Coin
    Byzantine Billon Imitative Coin (AD 1204)
Year:   1968
Coin Number:   1006
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   Bi
Comments:   Imitative
Obverse Legend:    M-R - UV
Obverse Type:   Virgin nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, seated upon throne with back; holds beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast
Reverse Legend:   [MLNOVHL / MLNOVHL - DEC]POTHC / [PORFVROGEN]
Reverse Type:   Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, and chlamys; holds in r. labarum, [and in l., anexikakia.]
Weight Description:   1.425
Weight:   1.425
Diameter:   21
Chronology:   AD 1204
Context:   NB404 B8 P85
Findspot Description:   NB404 B8 P85, .
    Sacred Spring, Modern fill of intrusion
Excavation Date: 5/20/1968
Basket 8
Notebook 404, p. 85, .
Area:   Sacred Spring
Notes:   Record generated from NB catalogue.
    Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Skyphate.
See Hendy's galley-insert, "pl. 31, 12-17". Latin Imitative, Type A, small module
Reference:   Hendy, p. 198, pl. 29, 1-3
Published:   Hesperia 1971, p. 50, 260
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Williams & Fisher, Hesperia 40:1, 1971
Image: digital 2010 1462
Image: digital 2010 1463
Image: digital 2010 1464