| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Coin | |
| Name: | T 1926 258 | |
| Title: | Byzantine Copper/Bronze Tetarteron of Alexius I (1092 - 1118) - Hybrid, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118) | |
| Year: | 1926 | |
| Coin Number: | 258 | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Material: | AE | |
| Denomination: | Tetarteron | |
| Mint: | Thessalonika | |
| Authority: | Alexius I (1092 - 1118) - Hybrid | |
| Obverse Legend: | [IC - XC] | |
| Obverse Type: | Bust of Christ, facing; nimbate [with pellets in links of cross; r. hand raised in benediction, and l. hand holds Gospels] | |
| Reverse Legend: | ||
| Reverse Type: | Jeweled, radiate cross, [decorated at end of each limb with one large globule and two smaller, all on two steps]; letters in angles | |
| Under Type: | overstruck on Class K Anonymous Follis | |
| Axis Clock: | 6 | |
| Weight Description: | 3.64 | |
| Weight: | 3.64 | |
| Diameter: | 22 | |
| Chronology: | AD 1092 - AD 1118 | |
| Findspot Description: | Theater, Above center circumference, 7.0 m. below track Excavation Date: 3/9/1926, . | |
| Notes: | Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Obverse: weak strike "mule"/Hybrid: between Edwards 119 and 122 / Hendy 7-8 and 10-12 Reference for the Class K Anonymous Follis: DOC III.2, p. 702 | |
| Reference: | Edwards, p. 142, 119 and 122; Hendy, p. 88, pl. 7-8 and pl. 10-12 | |
| Published: | Hesperia 1987, p. 144, 671 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: MacIsaac, Hesperia 56:2, 1987 Image: digital 2010 2482 Image: digital 2010 2483 Image: digital 2010 2484 |
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