Corinth Coin: T 1929 1737
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   T 1929 1737
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Coin of Manuel I, Uncertain Greek Mint
Year:   1929
Coin Number:   1737
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Mint:   Uncertain Greek
Authority:   Manuel I
Comments:   Type B, Imitative Series
Obverse Legend:   [O]GE - [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
Axis Clock:   7
Weight Description:   0.52
Weight:   0.52
Diameter:   10
Findspot Description:   Theater, East Section, K-L, 8
Excavation Date: 4/1/1929
Notebook 322, p. 843 C, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
successor mint of Athens?
Imitation
Octagonal clip (hybrid)
Reference:   cf. DOC IV.1, p. 337, 23; cf. Hendy, p. 121, pl. 18, 3-4 Wroth II, p. 579, type 6; Grierson, p. 375, 1106
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 0929
Image: digital 2010 0930
Image: digital 2010 0931