Corinth Coin: T 1926 86
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   T 1926 86
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Coin of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1926
Coin Number:   86
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Mint:   Thessalonika
Authority:   Alexius I
Comments:   (1092 - 1118), post reform - Imitative Series
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:   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 with pellets
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   0.855
Weight:   0.855
Diameter:   20
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Findspot Description:   Theater, E. Cavea, lower D, c. 3 m above orchestra
Excavation Date: 4/19/1926, .
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. 143, 671
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: MacIsaac, Hesperia 56:2, 1987
Image: digital 2010 2526
Image: digital 2010 2527
Image: digital 2010 2528