Corinth Coin: 1994 278
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1994 278
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Trachy (AD 1204 - AD 1261)
    Coin
Year:   1994
Coin Number:   278
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Trachy
Comments:   Imitative
Obverse Legend:   [IC – XC] in upper field
Obverse Type:   Christ, [bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion], seated upon throne without back; [r. hand raised in benediction, holds Gospels in l. hand. Cross above cushion of throne, on right side.]
Reverse Legend:   [HLGILELENE OA(in ligature)KON(retrograde)LNT]
Reverse Type:   Full-length figures of Saints Helena (l.) and Constantine (r.), holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft and step. St. Helena holds jeweled scepter, Constantine scepter cruciger
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   1.52
Weight:   1.52
Diameter:   19
Chronology:   AD 1204 - AD 1261
Context:   NB870 B16 P34
Findspot Description:   Temple E/SE Grid 82F, topsoil
Excavation Date: 5/31/1994
Basket 16
Notebook 870, p. 35, .
    NB870 B16 P34, .
Elevation:   86.544
Area:   Temple E, Southeast
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Edge bent.
Loros waist: cross within square with pellets in angels of square and center of cross. Latin Imitative, Type F, small module
    Record generated from NB catalogue.
Reference:   Hendy, p. 199, pl. 29, 16-18
Published:   Hesperia 1995, p. 52
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Williams, Hesperia 64:1, 1995