Corinth Coin: T 1928 1968
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   T 1928 1968
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Coin of Alexius I
Year:   1928
Coin Number:   1968
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Authority:   Alexius I
Comments:   (1092 - 1118), post reform - Imitative Series
Obverse Legend:    C - F / M - D
Obverse Type:   Jeweled, radiate cross, all within circle; letters in angles
Reverse Legend:    + L [ ]
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:   0.98
Weight:   0.98
Diameter:   20
Findspot Description:   Theater, Theater Street, 3rd Section South
Excavation Date: 4/30/1928
Notebook 321, p. 599, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Imitation
Very crude style
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 236, 40a.1 ff.; Hendy, p. 88, pl. 8, 10-12
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 2560
Image: digital 2010 2561
Image: digital 2010 2562