Corinth Coin: T 1929 3507
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   T 1929 3507
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Tetarteron of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1929
Coin Number:   3507
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Tetarteron
Mint:   Thessalonika
Authority:   Alexius I
Obverse Legend:   [MR-UN]
Obverse Type:   Virgin bust nimbate, orans, wearing tunic and maphorion.
Reverse Type:   Emperor bust, wearing stemma, divitision, and chlamys, in r. hand, scepter cruciger, in l., globus cruciger
Under Type:   Possible overstrike on anonymous follis class K (traces, reverse)
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   3.47
Weight:   3.47
Diameter:   20
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Findspot Description:   Theater, East Section; N-O-9; 0.5 meters above street
Excavation Date: 5/16/1929
Notebook 324 p. 959, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Negatives: 04-29-27,28
Another with border 1987-49
Reference:   DOC IV p. 236, 39.4-5; Hendy p. 88, Second Coinage, Plate 8.9; Grierson p. 374, 1056
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Images (5)