Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Coin | |
Name: | 1927 1252 | |
Title: | Byzantine Copper/Bronze Tetarteron of Manuel I, 1143-1180 – Type A, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1143 - AD 1180) | |
Year: | 1927 | |
Coin Number: | 1252 | |
Period: | Byzantine | |
Material: | AE | |
Denomination: | Tetarteron | |
Mint: | Thessalonika | |
Authority: | Manuel I, 1143-1180 – Type A | |
Obverse Legend: | ||
Obverse Type: | Bust of St. George, beardless and nimabte, wearing tunic, breastplate, and sagion; holds in r. hand spear, and in l. shield | |
Reverse Legend: | ||
Reverse Type: | Bust of emperor, bearded, wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum-headed scepter, and in l., globus cruciger | |
Axis Clock: | 6 | |
Weight Description: | 3.335 | |
Weight: | 3.335 | |
Diameter: | 22 | |
Chronology: | AD 1143 - AD 1180 | |
Findspot Description: | Lechaion Road Excavation Date: 5/6/1927 Notebook 95, p. 105, . | |
Notes: | Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Card #1252 | |
Reference: | DOC IV.1, p. 329, 18; Hendy, p. 120, pl. 17, 13; Wroth II, p. 579, type 6 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Image: digital 2010 0687 Image: digital 2010 0688 Image: digital 2010 0689 |