Corinth Coin: 1936 1729
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1936 1729
Title:   Byzantine Billon Tetarteron of Alexius I, Constantinople Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1936
Coin Number:   1729
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   Bi
Denomination:   Tetarteron
Mint:   Constantinople
Authority:   Alexius I
Obverse Legend:   [IC-X]C
Obverse Type:   Christ [traces] bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and colobion, seated on throne without back, holds Gospels in l. hand
Reverse Legend:   []
Reverse Type:   Emperor bust [traces] wearing stemma, divitision, and chlamys; holds in r. hand scepter cruciger, and in l., globus cruciger
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   2.90
Weight:   2.90
Diameter:   15
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Findspot Description:   Agora NE
Excavation Date: 5/18/1936, #11-20
Notebook: 157 p. 158, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Identification virtually certain.
Reference:   Hendy p. 87-88, Type C, Plates: 8:3-4; BMC p. 549, Type 4
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 2228
Image: digital 2010 2229
Image: digital 2010 2230