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: | ||
Obverse Type: | [Virgin bust nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, holds beardless, nimbate Christ on breast] | |
Reverse Legend: | ||
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 | |
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 |