Corinth Coin: 1926 421
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1926 421
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Coin of Alexius I (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1926
Coin Number:   421
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Authority:   Alexius I
Comments:   (1092 - 1118), post reform - Imitative Series
Obverse Legend:    [C - F] / M - D
Obverse Type:   Jeweled, radiate cross, decorated at end of each limb with one large globule and two smaller, all on two steps; letters in angles
Reverse Legend:    [TVK O MN]
Reverse Type:   Bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, and jeweled loros of traditional type; holds in r. hand scepter cruciger, and in l. globus cruciger
Axis Clock:   12
Weight Description:   3.28
Weight:   3.28
Diameter:   18.5
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Findspot Description:   Lechaion Road
Excavation Date: 6/14/1926
Notebook 90, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Barbarous? Imitation
Card #421
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 236, 40a.1 ff.; Hendy, p. 88, pl. 8, 10-12; BMC, p.551, type 9
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 2458
Image: digital 2010 2459
Image: digital 2010 2460