Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Coin | |
Name: | 1937 38 | |
Title: | Byzantine Copper/Bronze Tertarteron of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118) | |
Year: | 1937 | |
Coin Number: | 38 | |
Period: | Byzantine | |
Material: | AE | |
Denomination: | Tertarteron | |
Mint: | Thessalonika | |
Authority: | Alexius I | |
Obverse Legend: | [IC]-XC | |
Obverse Type: | Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and colobion, holds Gospels in l. hand | |
Reverse Legend: | ||
Reverse Type: | [Emperor bust wearing stemma, divitision, and chlamys, holds in r. hand scepter cruciger, and in l., globus cruciger] | |
Under Type: | Overstruck on cut down follis (1081-1092) | |
Axis Clock: | 5 | |
Weight Description: | 1.79 | |
Weight: | 1.79 | |
Diameter: | 20 | |
Chronology: | AD 1092 - AD 1118 | |
Context: | NB168 P29 | |
NB170 P46 | ||
Findspot Description: | Agora N.E., 4/17/1937, 47-52 Notebook: 166, p. 326, NB168 P29, . Agora N.E., 4/17/1937, 47-52 Notebook: 166, p. 326, NB170 P46, . | |
Area: | Forum northeast | |
Notes: | Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Cut down Reverse overstrike obliterated. On coin box, this coin is cited as pre-reform (1081-1092); while the undertype is pre-reform, the overstrike is post-reform and therefore this coin has been dated to 1092-1118 Another cut down example T1926-1513 (med.) 2.40 gr. Another 1960-311, poor | |
Reference: | Hendy p.88, First coinage, Plate 8:7; Edwards p.142, 121; for undertype: Hendy p. 75, Type A, Plate 3:1; Edwards p.142, 119 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Images (4) Basket: NB168 P29 Basket: NB170 P46 |