Corinth Coin: 1987 45
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1987 45
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Trachy (AD 1180)
Year:   1987
Coin Number:   45
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Trachy
Comments:   Imitative
Obverse Type:   Virgin bust
Reverse Type:   Full-length figure of Emperor (seated?)
Under Type:   overstruck with bust of Virgin over Manuel I's monogram
Weight Description:   0.70
Weight:   0.70
Diameter:   13
Chronology:   AD 1180
Findspot Description:   Temple E S, Decumanus, under Road 5
Excavation Date: 10/4/1987
Basket 117
Notebook 783, p. 122, .
Elevation:   87.044
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Latin Imitation .
octagonally cut-down, Group C.
Cut down from Manuel monogram issue (type A) and overstruck by Latin Imitation? (cf. Cor. 63-170, Study Collection).
Coin mechanically cleaned, 6/21/1995.
See DOC and Hendy for obverse undertype. Latin Imitative
Reference:   cf. DOCIV.1, p. 335, 22; cf. Hendy, p.121, pl. 17, 17-18 and pl. 18, 1-2
Published:   Hesperia 1988, p. 141, 88b
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Williams & Zervos, Hesperia 57:2, 1988
Image: digital 2010 1326
Image: digital 2010 1327
Image: digital 2010 1328