Corinth Coin: 1987 22
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1987 22
Title:   Byzantine Billon Imitative Trachy, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1204)
Year:   1987
Coin Number:   22
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   Bi
Denomination:   Trachy
Mint:   Thessalonika
Comments:   Imitative
Obverse Legend:   [I]C – [XC] in field
Obverse Type:   Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back; holds Gospels in l. hand. Asterisk above cushion of throne, to either side.
Reverse Legend:   garbled inscription to r.
Reverse Type:   Half-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and paneled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand scepter cruciger, and in l. globus cruciger.
Under Type:   doublestruck on obverse
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   2.39
Weight:   2.39
Diameter:   24
Chronology:   AD 1204
Findspot Description:   Temple E South,from top of pit 87-2, cleaning debris from balk,
Decumanus
Excavation Date: 8/4/1987
Basket 9
Notebook 797, p. 15-17, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
skyphate. Latin Imitative, Type A(large)
Reference:   Hendy, p. 196, pl. 28, 1-4
Published:   Hesperia 1988, p. 142, 92
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Williams & Zervos, Hesperia 57:2, 1988
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