Corinth Coin: 1937 85
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1937 85
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Coin of Isaac II, Angelus, 1185-1195 (AD 1185 - AD 1195)
Year:   1937
Coin Number:   85
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
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:   [IC] / A
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:   0.86
Weight:   0.86
Diameter:   14
Chronology:   AD 1185 - AD 1195
Context:   NB168 P70
Findspot Description:   Agora N.C.
Excavation Date: 10/16/1937, #106-116
Notebook 171, p. 93, NB168 P70, .
Area:   Forum northeast
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Separated from original card - 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 3
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 0840
Image: digital 2010 0841
Image: digital 2010 0842
Basket: NB168 P70