Corinth Coin: 1960 108
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1960 108
Title:   Coin
    Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Trachy (AD 1204)
Year:   1960
Coin Number:   108
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Trachy
Comments:   Imitative
Obverse Legend:   [IC - XC, in field]
Obverse Type:   illegible [Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne with back; holds Gospels in l. hand]
Reverse Legend:   traces [MLNOVHL / MLNOVHL - DECPOTHC / PORFVROGEN]
Reverse Type:   Half preserved; Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, and chlamys; holds in r. hand sword, point resting on ground, and in l. globus cruciger
Weight Description:   0.87
Weight:   0.87
Diameter:   14
Chronology:   AD 1204
Context:   NB218 B2 P20
Findspot Description:   NB218 B2 P20, .
    Agora SW-B, 46-52:KB-KH
Excavation Date: 4/6/1960, #43
Basket 2
Notebook 218, p. 20, .
Elevation:   84.35
Area:   Forum
Notes:   (1183-5). Record generated from NB catalogue.
    Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Trachy, cut down.
Originally considered to be as Sug. Type 13/ii. See Notecard. Latin Imitative, Type B, small module
Reference:   Hendy, p. 198, pl. 29, 4-6;
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 1492
Image: digital 2010 1493
Image: digital 2010 1494
Basket: NB218 B2 P20
Notebook Page: NB 218, spread 15 (pp. 20 - 21)