Corinth Coin: T 1926 1551
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   T 1926 1551
Title:   Byzantine Billon Trachy of Demetrius Comnenus-Ducas, 1244-1246, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1244 - AD 1246)
Year:   1926
Coin Number:   1551
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   Bi
Denomination:   Trachy
Mint:   Thessalonika
Authority:   Demetrius Comnenus-Ducas, 1244-1246
Obverse Legend:   IC / OE / MM /L – XC / N(retrograde)OV(in ligature) / HL
Obverse Type:   Bust of Christ, beardless and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds scroll in l. hand
Reverse Legend:   X /AR(in ligature) – X / M
Reverse Type:   Full-length figure of archangel Michael nimbate, wearing divitision, collar-piece, and paneled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. gl. cr.
Axis Clock:   6
Diameter:   27
Chronology:   AD 1244 - AD 1246
Findspot Description:   Theater, central tongue, 0.30 m below track level
Excavation Date: 4/10/1926, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
skyphate
renamed from T26-216
Reference:   DOC IV.2, p. 598, 1; Hendy, p. 288-289 pl. 41, 20-21
Published:   Hesperia 1987, p. 147, 690
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: MacIsaac, Hesperia 56:2, 1987
Image: digital 2010 1384
Image: digital 2010 1385
Image: digital 2010 1386