Corinth Coin: T 1926 1097
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   T 1926 1097
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Half Tetarteron of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1926
Coin Number:   1097
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Half Tetarteron
Mint:   Thessalonika
Authority:   Alexius I
Obverse Legend:    [MR]-UN
Obverse Type:   Virgin bust nimbate, orans, wearing tunic and maphorion
Reverse Legend:   []
Reverse Type:   Emperor bust, wearing stemma, divitision, and chlamys, in r. hand, scepter cruciger, in l., globus cruciger
Under Type:   Probably overstruck on anonymous follis class K
Axis Clock:   12
Weight Description:   0.80
Weight:   0.80
Diameter:   21
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Findspot Description:   Theater, East; Cavea IX; ca. 3.0m above orchestra
Excavation Date: 5/20/1926
Notebook: p. 238-240, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Paper thin flan
Unusual Fabric
Reference:   DOC p. 236, 39.4-5; Hendy p. 88, Second Coinage, Plate 8.9
Published:   Hesperia 1987, p. 147, 688
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: MacIsaac, Hesperia 56:2, 1987
Image: digital 2010 2288
Image: digital 2010 2289
Image: digital 2010 2290