Corinth Coin: 1978 569
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1978 569
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Coin of Manuel I, Uncertain Greek Mint (AD 1143 - AD 1180)
    Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Fraction of Manuel I, Uncertain Greek Mint
Year:   1978
Coin Number:   569
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   fraction
Mint:   Uncertain Greek
Authority:   Manuel I
Comments:   octagonal flan
    Type A, Imitative Series
Obverse Legend:   [M]-à-ü-å-[K]
    [M], L, D, [K]
Obverse Type:   Cross w M-à-ü-å-K
    Monogram (peudent P)
Reverse Legend:   no inscription
Reverse Type:   Emp bust facg crude
    Bust of emperor, beardless, wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and panelled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. globus cruciger
Under Type:   imit
Axis Clock:   11
Weight Description:   0.78
Weight:   0.78
Diameter:   12
Chronology:   AD 1143 - AD 1180
Context:   NB702 B173 P177
Findspot Description:   TH-SC Tr 6, NB702 B173 P177, .
    Temple Hill, SCT VI
Excavation Date: 11/1/1978
Basket 173
Notebook 702, p. 177, .
Area:   Temple Hill
Notes:   Hendy Pl.18 #1-2
    Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Small octagonally cut flan, filed with octagonal clips
Hybrid, Imitation
Possibly Hendy, pl. 29, 4-6 (Latin, Type B)!
Reference:   cf. DOCIV.1, p. 335, 22; cf. Hendy, p.121, pl. 18, 1-2
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Images (4)
Basket: NB702 B173 P177
Notebook Page: NB 702, spread 93 (pp. 176 - 177)