Corinth Coin: 1961 131
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1961 131
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Coin (AD 1204 - AD 1261)
    Coin
Year:   1961
Coin Number:   131
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Comments:   Imitative
Obverse Legend:   [I]C – [XC] in upper field
Obverse Type:   Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne with back; [holds Gospels in l. hand]
Reverse Legend:   [MLNOVHL / MLNOVHL - DECPOTHC / PORFVROGEN]
Reverse Type:   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:   1.62
Weight:   1.62
Diameter:   20
Chronology:   AD 1204 - AD 1261
Findspot Description:   Agora SW-F
Excavation Date: 4/17/1961, #16
Baskets 1 and 2
Notebook 229, p. 14
Notebook 223, p. 20, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
skyphate.
Reverse - unusual ornamentation on garment. Latin Imitative, Type B, small module
    Record generated from NB catalogue.
Reference:   Hendy, p. 198, pl. 29, 4-6; Sabatier II, p. 209, 14
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 1495
Image: digital 2010 1496
Image: digital 2010 1497
Notebook Page: NB 229, spread 12 (pp. 14 - 15)