| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Coin | |
| Name: | 1931 1050 | |
| Title: | Byzantine Coin of Alexius | |
| Byzantine Billon Coin of Alexius III Angelus-Comnenus, 1195-1203, Constantinople Mint (AD 1195 - AD 1203) | ||
| Year: | 1931 | |
| Coin Number: | 1050 | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Material: | Bi | |
| Mint: | Constantinople | |
| Authority: | Alexius | |
| Alexius III Angelus-Comnenus, 1195-1203 | ||
| Obverse Legend: | ||
| Obverse Type: | Beardless, nimbate bust of Christ, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds scroll in l. hand. Pellets in each limb of nimbus cross. | |
| Reverse Legend: | no inscription | |
| Reverse Type: | Full-length figure of emperor on l. and of St. Constantine, nimbate, holding between them gl. cr. Both wear stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; both hold labarum-headed scepter. | |
| Under Type: | doublestruck | |
| Axis Clock: | 6 | |
| Diameter: | 28 | |
| Chronology: | AD 1195 - AD 1203 | |
| Findspot Description: | Temple C Excavation Date: 4/29/1931, #10 Notebook 117, p. 78, . | |
| Notes: | Alexius IIII. Record generated from NB catalogue. | |
| Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Card #373 coin flattened, originally skyphate double struck, giving his globus cr. in center | ||
| Reference: | DOC IV.1, p. 407-8, 3; Hendy, p. 151, pl. 23, 1-7; Edwards, p. 147, 156; BMC, p. 602, type 4 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Image: digital 2010 0865 Image: digital 2010 0866 Image: digital 2010 0867 Notebook Page: NB 117, spread 43 (pp. 77 - 78) |
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