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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Coin | |
| Name: | 1968 678 | |
| Title: | Byzantine Copper/Bronze Tetarteron of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118) | |
| Year: | 1968 | |
| Coin Number: | 678 | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Material: | AE | |
| Denomination: | tetarteron | |
| Mint: | Thessalonika | |
| Authority: | Alexius I | |
| Obverse Legend: | C- | |
| 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: | [] | |
| Reverse Type: | Emperor bust, wearing stemma, divitision, and jeweled loros of traditional type, in r. hand, scepter cruciger, in l., globus cruciger | |
| Under Type: | Overstruck on DOC IV p. 236, 39.4-5 (virgin) and on anonymous follis, class K | |
| Axis Clock: | 6 | |
| Weight Description: | 4.08 | |
| Weight: | 4.08 | |
| Diameter: | 21 | |
| Chronology: | AD 1092 - AD 1118 | |
| Context: | NB404 B3 P22 | |
| Findspot Description: | Sacred Spring; Trench 1, fill of old trench Excavation Date: 4/25/1968 Notebook: 404 p. 23 Basket: 3, NB404 B3 P22, . | |
| Area: | Sacred Spring | |
| Notes: | Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Negatives: 70-80-4,5 Another example: 1940-49 | |
| Reference: | DOC IV p. 237, 40a.4; Hendy p. 88, Third Coinage, Plate 8.10-12 | |
| Published: | Hesperia 1971, p. 49, 242 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Williams & Fisher, Hesperia 40:1, 1971 Image: digital 2010 2294 Image: digital 2010 2295 Image: digital 2010 2296 |
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