Corinth Coin: 1927 1028
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1927 1028
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Coin of Alexius I (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1927
Coin Number:   1028
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Authority:   Alexius I
Comments:   (1092 - 1118), post reform - Imitative Series
Obverse Legend:    C - D / F - [M]
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:   No inscription
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:   3
Weight Description:   1.86
Weight:   1.86
Diameter:   20
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Findspot Description:   Odeion Dump
Excavation Date: 4/12 or 13/1927
Notebook 94, p. 12, line 38, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Imitation
Card #1028
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 236, 40a.1 ff.; Hendy, p. 88, pl. 8, 10-12; Wroth II, p. 551, Type 9, pl. LXV, 19-20
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 2550
Image: digital 2010 2551
Image: digital 2010 2552