Google Earth| 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 |
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