Corinth Coin: 1935 21
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1935 21
Title:   Coin
    Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Coin of John II (AD 1118 - AD 1143)
Year:   1935
Coin Number:   21
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Authority:   John II
Comments:   Imitative
Obverse Legend:   [IC]-XC
Obverse Type:   Christ full-length, nimbate, [wearing tunic and kolobion, holds gospels in l. hand],circle for head
Reverse Type:   Emperor bust, holds in l. globus cruciger, [wearing stemma, divitision, and chlamys, holds in r. hand scepter]
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   1.24
Weight:   1.24
Diameter:   14
Chronology:   AD 1118 - AD 1143
Findspot Description:   Agora, Southeast
Excavation: 4/13/1935, #20-27
Notebook: 147 p. 107, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
    Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Originally attributed imitation of John II or Manuel I, but in forgeries section of John II tray.
Card 872
Reference:   cf. DOC IV p. 271, 16
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 0597
Image: digital 2010 0598
Image: digital 2010 0599
Notebook Page: NB 151, spread 19 (pp. 29 - 30)