Corinth Coin: T 1929 1774
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   T 1929 1774
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Coin of Manuel I, Athens Mint
Year:   1929
Coin Number:   1774
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Mint:   Athens
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
Weight Description:   0.55
Weight:   0.55
Diameter:   12
Findspot Description:   Theater, East Section Dump
Excavation Date: 4/1/1929
Notebook 322, p. 843, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Mint of Athens
Holes for suspension
octagonal clip
Imitation, Hybrid: Emp. Wrong costume - cf. Agora II, 1910 (1908/7)
Reference:   cf. DOCIV.1, p. 335, 22; cf. Hendy, p.121, pl. 18, 1-2; cf. BMC, p. 580, type 7; cf. Grierson, p. 375, 1105
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 0910
Image: digital 2010 0911
Image: digital 2010 0912