Corinth Coin: T 1929 4203
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   T 1929 4203
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Half-Tetar? of Alexius I (1092 - 1118), post reform - Type D, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1929
Coin Number:   4203
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Half-tetar?
Mint:   Thessalonika
Authority:   Alexius I (1092 - 1118), post reform - Type D
Obverse Legend:    [A - A] / K - F
Obverse Type:   Patriarchal cross on two steps; letters in angles
Reverse Legend:    [LLC JI ]
Reverse Type:   Bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, and jeweled loros of traditional type; holds in r. hand jeweled scepter, and in l., gl. cr.
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   .67
Weight:   .67
Diameter:   10
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Findspot Description:   Theater East, Section [K 10] +/- 1 m.
Excavation Date: 3/13/1929, #16
Notebook 322, p. 780, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
octag. cut
cut down
Thessalonika, Type D
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 240, 45a.1 ff.; Hendy, p. 89, pl. 8, 13-15; Grierson, p. 374, 1063
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 2446
Image: digital 2010 2447
Image: digital 2010 2448