Corinth Coin: 1937 99
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1937 99
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Half Tetarteron of Isaac II, Angelus, 1185-1195, Uncertain Greek Mint (AD 1185 - AD 1195)
Year:   1937
Coin Number:   99
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Half Tetarteron
Mint:   Uncertain Greek
Authority:   Isaac II, Angelus, 1185-1195
Obverse Legend:   no inscription
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, and in l. gl. cr.
Reverse Legend:   I / C[A / 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:   0.90
Weight:   0.90
Diameter:   15
Chronology:   AD 1185 - AD 1195
Findspot Description:   Agora S.C.
Excavation Date: 11/1/1937, #75-78
Notebook 173, p. 75, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 390, 5; 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 0831
Image: digital 2010 0832
Image: digital 2010 0833