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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Coin | |
| Name: | 1978 420 | |
| Title: | Byzantine Aspron Trachy of Manuel I,1143-1180 - Fourth Coinage, Type A, Constantinople Mint (AD 1143 - AD 1180) | |
| Year: | 1978 | |
| Coin Number: | 420 | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Material: | BI | |
| Denomination: | Aspron Trachy | |
| Mint: | Constantinople | |
| Authority: | Manuel I,1143-1180 - Fourth Coinage, Type A | |
| Comments: | squashed flat | |
| Obverse Legend: | IC - XC | |
| Obverse Type: | Christ, [bearded] and nimbate, wearing tunic and colobion, seated upon throne without back; holds Gospels in left hand | |
| Reverse Legend: | ||
| Reverse Type: | Emperor full length, bearded, on l. crowned by Virgin nimbate. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jewelled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum-headed scepter, and in l., globus cruciger. Virgin wears tunic and maphorion. | |
| Under Type: | scyf | |
| Axis Clock: | 6 | |
| Diameter: | 31 | |
| Chronology: | AD 1143 - AD 1180 | |
| Context: | NB701 B175 P157 | |
| Findspot Description: | Temple Hill - Northwest cut between West Road Trenches and Area West of Temple Excavation Date: 8/18/1978 Notebook 701, p. 157, Basket 175, NB701 B175 P157, . | |
| Area: | Temple Hill | |
| Notes: | Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Manuel I, Fourth Coinage, Var. A: Three jewels on emperor's loros between waist and collar-piece; loros waist boxed four pellets with cross or boxed five pellets. Skyphate, but squashed flat | |
| Reference: | DOC IV.1, p. 312, 13; Hendy, p.118, pl.16 #1-6 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Image: digital 2010 0600 Image: digital 2010 0601 Image: digital 2010 0602 Basket: NB701 B175 P157 Notebook Page: NB 701, spread 83 (p. 157) |
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