Corinth Coin: 1994 66
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1994 66
Title:   Coin
    Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Half Tetarteron of Manuel I (AD 1143 - AD 1180)
Year:   1994
Coin Number:   66
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Half Tetarteron
Authority:   Manuel I
Comments:   Type A, Imitative Series
Obverse Legend:   M, L, D, K
Obverse Type:   Monogram (centered 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:   1.25
Weight:   1.25
Diameter:   17
Chronology:   AD 1143 - AD 1180
Context:   NB857 B137 P194
Findspot Description:   NB857 B137 P194, .
    Temple E SE, Grid 8213, courtyard fill, Elevation 85.725-85.571
Excavation Date: 4/13/1994
Basket 137
Notebook 857, p. 194-5, .
Area:   Temple E, Southeast
Notes:   Record generated from NB catalogue.
    Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Halved by chiseling - two trial chisel blows visible/overstruck?
Irregular style (counterfiet or overstruck?)
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 333, 20; Hendy, p.121, pl. 17, 17-18
Published:   Hesperia 1995, p. 51
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Williams, Hesperia 64:1, 1995
Image: digital 2010 0762
Image: digital 2010 0763
Image: digital 2010 0764