Corinth Coin: 1993 172
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1993 172
Title:   Coin
    Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Half Tetarteron of Manuel I, Uncertain Greek Mint
Year:   1993
Coin Number:   172
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:   0.43
Weight:   0.43
Diameter:   12
Context:   NB857 B105 P153
Findspot Description:   NB857 B105 P153, .
    Temple E SE, 81:A, Sieve, general fill
Excavation Date: 5/27/1993
Basket 105
Notebook 857, p. 153, .
Area:   Temple E, Southeast
Notes:   Record generated from NB catalogue.
    Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Imitation
Crude style; "octagonal" clp - (one corner adhering); paper thin
Group A
Reference:   cf. DOCIV.1, p. 335, 22; cf. Hendy, p.121, pl. 18, 1-2
Published:   Hesperia 1994, p. 49
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Williams & Zervos, Hesperia 63:1, 1994
Image: digital 2010 0886
Image: digital 2010 0887
Image: digital 2010 0888