Corinth Coin: T 1925 76
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   T 1925 76
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Tetarteron of Alexius I, Corinth? Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1925
Coin Number:   76
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Tetarteron
Mint:   Corinth?
Authority:   Alexius I
Comments:   (1092 - 1118), post reform - Imitative Series
Obverse Legend:   no inscription
Obverse Type:   Half-length bust of Emperor, facing; holding labarum
Reverse Legend:   no inscription
Reverse Type:   monogram
Under Type:   overstruck
Axis Clock:   2
Weight Description:   2.135
Weight:   2.135
Diameter:   21
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Findspot Description:   Theater, Trench E of Odeion
Excavation Date: 4/4/1925, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Imitation
Reverse overstruck: probably barbaric imitation of Hendy, p.88, pl. 8.10
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 236, 40a.1 ff.; Hendy, p. 88, pl. 8, 10-12
Published:   Hesperia 1987, p. 145, 676
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: MacIsaac, Hesperia 56:2, 1987
Image: digital 2010 2572
Image: digital 2010 2573
Image: digital 2010 2574