Corinth Coin: 1928 683
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1928 683
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Tetarteron of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1928
Coin Number:   683
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Tetarteron
Mint:   Thessalonika
Authority:   Alexius I
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:   []-MN
Reverse Type:   Emperor bust, wearing stemma, divitision, and jeweled loros of traditional type, in r. hand, scepter cruciger, in l., globus cruciger
Axis Clock:   5
Weight Description:   3.68
Weight:   3.68
Diameter:   23
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Findspot Description:   Odeion
Excavation Date: 5/14/1928
Notebook: 102 p. 47, line 23, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Reference:   DOC IV p. 237, 40a.4; Hendy p. 88, Third Coinage, Plate 8.10
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 2339
Image: digital 2010 2340
Image: digital 2010 2341