Corinth Coin: 1937 122
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1937 122
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Half Tetarteron of Manuel I (AD 1143 - AD 1180)
Year:   1937
Coin Number:   122
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Half Tetarteron
Authority:   Manuel I
Comments:   Type A, Imitative Series
Obverse Legend:   M, L, D, K
Obverse Type:   Monogram (centered 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:   3
Weight Description:   1.73
Weight:   1.73
Diameter:   16.5
Chronology:   AD 1143 - AD 1180
Findspot Description:   Agora S.C.
Excavation Date: 12/7/1937
Notebook 174, p. 124 (291-310) or p. 125 (491-513), .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Imitation
Separated from original card
was stored with 1937-175 and 1937-176 in same S.C. box
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 333, 20; Hendy, p.121, pl. 17, 17-18
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 0753
Image: digital 2010 0754
Image: digital 2010 0755