Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Coin | |
Name: | 1937 57 | |
Title: | Byzantine Billon Aspron Trachy Nomisma of Alexius III Angelus-Comnenus, 1195-1203, Constantinople Mint (AD 1195 - AD 1203) | |
Year: | 1937 | |
Coin Number: | 57 | |
Period: | Byzantine | |
Material: | Bi | |
Denomination: | Aspron Trachy Nomisma | |
Mint: | Constantinople | |
Authority: | Alexius III Angelus-Comnenus, 1195-1203 | |
Obverse Legend: | ||
Obverse Type: | Beardless, nimbate bust of Christ, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds scroll in l. hand. Pellets in each limb of nimbus cross. | |
Reverse Legend: | no inscription | |
Reverse Type: | Full-length figure of emperor on l. and of St. Constantine, nimbate, holding between them gl. cr. Both wear stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; both hold labarum-headed scepter. | |
Axis Clock: | 6 | |
Weight Description: | 3.105 | |
Weight: | 3.105 | |
Diameter: | 31 | |
Chronology: | AD 1195 - AD 1203 | |
Findspot Description: | So. Stoa W. Excavation Date: 9/15/1937, #11-28 Notebook 170, p. 30, . | |
Notes: | Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. skyphate | |
Reference: | DOC IV.1, p. 407-8, 3; Hendy, p. 151, pl. 23, 1-7; Edwards, p. 147, 156 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Image: digital 2010 0862 Image: digital 2010 0863 Image: digital 2010 0864 |