| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Coin | |
| Name: | T 1926 264 | |
| Title: | Byzantine Copper/Bronze Tetarteron of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118) | |
| Year: | 1926 | |
| Coin Number: | 264 | |
| 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 | |
| Axis Clock: | 6 | |
| Weight Description: | 2.50 | |
| Weight: | 2.50 | |
| Diameter: | 23 | |
| Chronology: | AD 1092 - AD 1118 | |
| Findspot Description: | Theater; Central circumference, end of track; 0.50 meters below track level Excavation Date: 3/10/1926, . | |
| Notes: | Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Negatives: 05-24-7,8 New Variant (reverse) 02-Group A | |
| Reference: | DOC IV p. 236, 40a.1; Hendy p. 88, Third Coinage, Plate 8.11 | |
| Published: | Hesperia 1987, p. 144, 671 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: MacIsaac, Hesperia 56:2, 1987 Images (5) |
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