Corinth Coin: 9
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   9
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Coin, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1204)
Coin Number:   9
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Mint:   Thessalonika
Comments:   Imitative
Obverse Legend:   IC - XC
Obverse Type:   Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back; holds Gospels in l. hand. Asterisk above cushion of throne, to either side.
Reverse Type:   Half-length figure of emperor wearing stemma divitision, collar-piece, and paneled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand scepter cruciger, and in l. globus cruciger.
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   2.67
Weight:   2.67
Diameter:   24
Chronology:   AD 1204
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Imitation, Type A, large.
Original card and ticket missing. Latin Imitative - Type A
Reference:   Hendy, p. 196, pl. 28,1-4
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece