Corinth Coin: 1991 365
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1991 365
Title:   Coin
    Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Follis (AD 1075)
Year:   1991
Coin Number:   365
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Follis
Comments:   Imitative
Obverse Legend:   no inscription
Obverse Type:   Christ bust; pellet in each arm of nimbus cross; widely spaced pellets on a line
Reverse Legend:   no inscription
Reverse Type:   Jeweled cross; X at the center and floral base; narrowly spaced pellets on a line
Under Type:   overstruck
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   3.79
Weight:   3.79
Diameter:   25
Chronology:   AD 1075
Context:   NB840 B119 P160
    NB840 B119 P158
Findspot Description:   NB840 B119 P160
NB840 B119 P158, .
    Temple E Temenon, SE Well 1991-1 from 1400 to 14.40, recovered from sieve
Excavation Date: 7/18/1991
Notebook 840, p. 158 Basket (15) B. 119, .
Area:   Temple E, Southeast
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Record generated from NB catalogue.
    Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
uncertain if mint city is Trebizond
imitation (?) of anonymous folis, Clan I (1075-80)
Published:   Hesperia 1992, p. 185; cf. Grierson, p. 228
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Williams & Zervos, Hesperia 61:2, 1992
Image: digital 2010 3435
Image: digital 2010 3436
Image: digital 2010 3437