| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Coin | |
| Name: | T 1926 548 | |
| Title: | Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Tetarteron of Alexius I, Corinth? Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118) | |
| Year: | 1926 | |
| Coin Number: | 548 | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Material: | AE | |
| Denomination: | Tetarteron | |
| Mint: | Corinth? | |
| Authority: | Alexius I | |
| Comments: | (1092 - 1118), post reform - Imitative Series | |
| Obverse Legend: | ||
| Obverse Type: | Jeweled, radiate cross with square arms, decorated at end of each limb with one large globule and two smaller, all on two steps; letters in angles | |
| Reverse Legend: | no inscription | |
| Reverse Type: | Bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, and jeweled loros of traditional type; holds in r. hand scepter cruciger, and in l. globus cruciger | |
| Axis Clock: | 6 | |
| Weight Description: | 2.205 | |
| Weight: | 2.205 | |
| Diameter: | 19.5 | |
| Chronology: | AD 1092 - AD 1118 | |
| Findspot Description: | Theater, East Cavea, Section VI, Pit D, track level Excavation Date: 4/1/1926, . | |
| Notes: | Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Imitation | |
| Reference: | DOC IV.1, p. 236, 40a.1 ff.; Hendy, p. 88, pl. 8, 10-12 | |
| Published: | Hesperia 1987, p. 144, 672 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: MacIsaac, Hesperia 56:2, 1987 Image: digital 2010 2581 Image: digital 2010 2582 Image: digital 2010 2583 |
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