Corinth Coin: T 1926 195
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   T 1926 195
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Tetarteron of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1926
Coin Number:   195
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Tetarteron
Mint:   Thessalonika
Authority:   Alexius I
Obverse Legend:   C-F/M-D
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:   TOK-O-[]
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 uncertain type
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   3.35
Weight:   3.35
Diameter:   21
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Findspot Description:   Theater; W. Cavea, sections 13-14; 2 meters below track
Date: 4/24/1926
Notebook: ? p. 168, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Negatives: 93-21-22,23; 05-24-3,4
Reference:   DOC IV p. 237, 40a.4; Hendy p. 88, Third Coinage, Plate 8.10
Published:   Hesperia 1987, p. 144, 671
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: MacIsaac, Hesperia 56:2, 1987
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