Corinth Coin: 1989 245
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1989 245
Title:   Coin
    Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Half Tetarteron of Manuel I (AD 1143 - AD 1180)
Year:   1989
Coin Number:   245
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Half Tetarteron
Authority:   Manuel I
Comments:   Type B, Imitative Series
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 DECPOT]
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]
Under Type:   overstruck or double struck at right angle
Axis Clock:   12 and 3
Weight Description:   0.68
Weight:   0.68
Diameter:   14
Chronology:   AD 1143 - AD 1180
Context:   NB826 B36 P39
Findspot Description:   NB826 B36 P39, .
    Temple E, SE, Fill from bothros, 75: C, Pit 894, Unit 1, Room 1
Excavation Date: 6/26-27/1989
Basket 36
Notebook 826, p. 39, .
Elevation:   82.45
Area:   Temple E, Southeast
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Record generated from NB catalogue.
    Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Very think flan
octagonal clip
Attributed Types as in Manuel I but perhaps closer (emperor's arm raised) to those of John III of Nicaea, A.D. 1222-1254 (Hendy, pl. 34.4-5)
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 337, 23; Hendy, p. 121-122, pl. 18, 3-4; BMC, p. 579, type 6
Published:   Hesperia 1990, p. 365, 58
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Williams & Zervos, Hesperia 59:2, 1990
Image: digital 2010 0705
Image: digital 2010 0706
Image: digital 2010 0707