Corinth Coin: 1997 62
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1997 62
Title:   Coin
    Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Half Tetarteron of Manuel I, Uncertain Greek Mint
Year:   1997
Coin Number:   62
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:   7
Weight Description:   0.72
Weight:   0.72
Diameter:   15
Context:   NB896 B67 P143
Findspot Description:   NB896 B67 P143, .
    Forum SW, 69-70:2Y, just under cement floor, tiles and soil layer
Excavation Date: 4/18/1997
Basket 67
Notebook 896, p. 143, .
Elevation:   85.242
Notes:   Record generated from NB catalogue.
    Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
octagonal clip
AE disease
Imitation (Hybrid) - "Ungrammatical" reverse (mule)
Reference:   cf. DOCIV.1, p. 335, 22; cf. Hendy, p.121, pl. 18, 1-2; BMC, p. 580, type 7
Published:   Hesperia 1998, p. 274, 63
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Williams, et al. Hesperia 67:3, 1998
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