Corinth Coin: 1993 234
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1993 234
Title:   Coin
    Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Trachy (AD 1204 - AD 1261)
Year:   1993
Coin Number:   234
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Trachy
Comments:   Imitative
Obverse Legend:   [IC – XC in upper field]
Obverse Type:   Obscure; [Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back; r. hand raised in benediction, holds Gospels in l. hand. Cross above cushion of throne, on right side.]
Reverse Legend:   [HLGILELENE OA(in ligature]KON(retrograde)LNT]
Reverse Type:   Full-length figures of Saints Helena (l.) and Constantine (r.), holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft and step. St. Helena holds jeweled scepter, Constantine scepter cruciger
Axis Clock:   6?
Weight Description:   0.62
Weight:   0.62
Diameter:   14
Chronology:   AD 1204 - AD 1261
Context:   NB863 B16 P21
Findspot Description:   NB863 B16 P21, .
    Temple E SE, removal of martyr against N. wall of annex, clay crust
over court floor (court North of Annex); from seive
Excavation Date: 6/23/1993
Basket 16
Notebook 863, p. 21, .
Area:   Temple E, Southeast
Notes:   Record generated from NB catalogue.
    Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
cut down.
square clip (unusual!). Latin Imitative, Type F, small module
Reference:   Hendy, p. 199, pl. 29, 16-18
Published:   Hesperia 1994, p. 50
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Williams & Zervos, Hesperia 63:1, 1994
Image: digital 2010 1539
Image: digital 2010 1540
Image: digital 2010 1541