Corinth Coin: 1987 18
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1987 18
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Half Tetarteron of Manuel I, 1143-1180 – Type B, Uncertain Greek Mint (AD 1143 - AD 1180)
Year:   1987
Coin Number:   18
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Half Tetarteron
Mint:   Uncertain Greek
Authority:   Manuel I, 1143-1180 – Type B
Obverse Legend:   OGE [VP(in ligature) – GIOW]
Obverse Type:   Bust of St. George, beardless and nimabte, wearing tunic, breastplate, and sagion; holds in r. hand spear, and in l. shield
Reverse Legend:   [MANOY(in ligature)HL] DEC[POT]
Reverse Type:   Bust of emperor, bearded, wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; [holds in r. hand labarum-headed scepter, and in l., globus cruciger]
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   2.18
Weight:   2.18
Diameter:   12
Chronology:   AD 1143 - AD 1180
Findspot Description:   Temple E South Decumanus
Excavation Date: 8/4/1987
Basket 110
Notebook 783, p. 113, .
Elevation:   87.66
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
clipped
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 337, 23; Hendy, p. 121-122, pl. 18, 3-4; BMC, p. 579, type 6
Published:   Hesperia 1988, p. 141, 86
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Williams & Zervos, Hesperia 57:2, 1988
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