DOCIV Manuel I 18, pp. 329-331 (Thessalonica Type A (Heavy Standard))
Contributor Notes
2012 (late May-early June): R. Weir studied, with reference to KenchreaiIII.
Contributor Notes
2023: JLR identified coin.
Preservation description
Wear: aF/aG. Deep, irregular chipping and snapping all around edge, probably after clipping of coin, with contiguous cracking; extensive, slight pitting and scratching; wide areas of differential wear. Wispy incipient pale green bronze disease on both faces. Overall coin has lost much of its original size.
Published as
KenchreaiIII, p. 78, no. 1223 (R. Hohlfelder identified as “Uncertain, Byzantine“)
Facing half-length figure of nimbate, beardless St. George wearing tunic, [cuirass,] and sagion and holding [shield in left hand and] spear in right hand
Obverse Description
Undertype: uncertain details over chest of figure
Obverse Inscription
[Ο | Γ|]Ⲉ|[ⲰΡ-Γ|Ι|Ο|Ⲥ]
Reverse Description
Facing half-length figure of [bearded] emperor wearing [stemma, divitision,] collarpiece, and jeweled loros and holding labarum scepter in right hand [and globus cruciger in left hand]
