Corinth Coin: 1927 1551
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1927 1551
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Trachy (AD 1204 - AD 1261)
Year:   1927
Coin Number:   1551
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Trachy
Comments:   Imitative
Obverse Legend:   IC – [XC] in upper field
Obverse Type:   Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back; holds Gospels in l. hand. [Asterisk above cushion of throne, on either side.]
Reverse Legend:   No inscription
Reverse Type:   Half-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and paneled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand scepter cruciger and in left. globus cruciger
Weight Description:   1.49
Weight:   1.49
Diameter:   20
Chronology:   AD 1204 - AD 1261
Findspot Description:   Lechaion Road
Excavation Date: 4/14/1927, #1151.b
Notebook 95, p. 60, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Skyphate flattened, broken.
Renamed from 1151b; Coin Card #1151b. Latin Imitative, Type D, small module
Reference:   Hendy, p. 198, pl. 29, 10-12
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 1517
Image: digital 2010 1518
Image: digital 2010 1519