Corinth Coin: T 1928 1056
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   T 1928 1056
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Follis of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1081 - AD 1092)
Year:   1928
Coin Number:   1056
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Follis
Mint:   Thessalonika
Authority:   Alexius I
Obverse Legend:   [MR UN]
Obverse Type:   [Virgin bust nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, holds beardless, nimbate Christ on breast]
Reverse Legend:    +LLEJI-D[ECPOTTVK]
Reverse Type:   Emperor full-length wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jewelled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l., globus cruciger
Axis Clock:   12
Weight Description:   3.80
Weight:   3.80
Diameter:   23
Chronology:   AD 1081 - AD 1092
Findspot Description:   Athena Trench, South extension
4/17/1928
Notebook 550 p. 106, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Hendy, Plate 3:1. pre-reform (1081-1092) but without globus border (clipped?)
Negatives: 88-35-9,10
Originally thought + ALEJI
Reference:   cf. Hendy p. 75, Type A, Plate 3:1; BMC p. 550, 48 (4.67 gr.); Grierson, 1024 p. 224 (7.55 gr.);
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 2198
Image: digital 2010 2199
Image: digital 2010 2200