Corinth Coin: 1929 1912
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1929 1912
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Half Tetarteron of Isaac II, Angelus, 1185-1195 (AD 1185 - AD 1195)
Year:   1929
Coin Number:   1912
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Half Tetarteron
Authority:   Isaac II, Angelus, 1185-1195
Obverse Legend:    O/X / AR – X / MI
Obverse Type:   Bust of archangel Michael, beardless and nimbate, wearing divitsion, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand jeweled scepter, or spear, and in l. gl. cr.
Reverse Legend:   I / CA / AK - [D / EC]
Reverse Type:   Bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand scepter cruciger, and in l. anexikakia
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   1.665
Weight:   1.665
Diameter:   15
Chronology:   AD 1185 - AD 1195
Findspot Description:   North of Peribolos
Excavation Date: 4/18/1929 (83-B)
Notebook 104, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Separated from card #1912 - one of 2 coins
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 391, 6; cf. Hendy, p. 145, pl. 21, 10-11; Edwards, no 155; BMC, p. 597, type b
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 0837
Image: digital 2010 0838
Image: digital 2010 0839