Corinth Coin: 1987 111
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1987 111
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Half Tetarteron of Manuel I, Uncertain Greek Mint
Year:   1987
Coin Number:   111
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Half Tetarteron
Mint:   Uncertain Greek
Authority:   Manuel I
Comments:   Type A, Imitative Series
Obverse Legend:   M, L, D, K
Obverse Type:   Monogram (peudent P)
Reverse Legend:   no inscription
Reverse Type:   Bust of emperor, beardless, wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and panelled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. globus cruciger
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   0.78
Weight:   0.78
Diameter:   13
Findspot Description:   Decumanus, Temple E South, Pit 1987-4
Excavation Date: 4/5/1987
Basket 49
Notebook 797, p. 60, .
Elevation:   86.995
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Imitation
octagonal clip - think fabric, damaged
Collar-piece on reverse has only 5 jewels
Letters on the obverse with serif
Reference:   cf. DOCIV.1, p. 335, 22; cf. Hendy, p.121, pl. 18, 1-2
Published:   Hesperia 1988, p. 141, 88a.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Williams & Zervos, Hesperia 57:2, 1988
Image: digital 2010 0889
Image: digital 2010 0890
Image: digital 2010 0891