Corinth Coin: 1975 141
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1975 141
Title:   Byzantine Hemtr of Isaac II, uncertain Greek Mint
    Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Half Tetarteron of Isaac II, Angelus, Uncertain Greek Mint (AD 1185 - AD 1195)
Year:   1975
Coin Number:   141
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   hemtr
    Half Tetarteron
Mint:   uncertain Greek
    Uncertain Greek
Authority:   Isaac II
    Isaac II, Angelus
Comments:   Imitative
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.; traces of wing on the l.
Reverse Legend:   no inscription
Reverse Type:   Emp bust collar loros hldg sc-cr
    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:   1.92
Weight:   1.92
Diameter:   15
Chronology:   AD 1185 - AD 1195
Context:   NB625 B16 P12
Findspot Description:   Forum Southwest, NB625 B16 P12, wl, .
    Forum S.W., Brid 66B, Dismantling of Wall 13
Excavation Date: 5/15/1975
Basket 16
Notebook 625, p. 12, .
Area:   Forum southwest
Notes:   Hendy Pl 21,10-11
    Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Imitation
Same denomination: cf. Study Collection = Christian Basilica. III/10/1934, #4
Reference:   Hendy Pl 21,10-11
    DOC IV.1, p. 391, 6; cf. Hendy, p. 145, pl. 21, 10-11; Edwards, no 155; BMC, p. 597, type 3
Published:   Hesperia 1976, p. 161, 224
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Williams & Fisher, Hesperia 45:2, 1976
Image: digital 2010 0849
Image: digital 2010 0850
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