Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Coin | |
Name: | 1936 1729 | |
Title: | Byzantine Billon Tetarteron of Alexius I, Constantinople Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118) | |
Year: | 1936 | |
Coin Number: | 1729 | |
Period: | Byzantine | |
Material: | Bi | |
Denomination: | Tetarteron | |
Mint: | Constantinople | |
Authority: | Alexius I | |
Obverse Legend: | [IC-X]C | |
Obverse Type: | Christ [traces] bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and colobion, seated on throne without back, holds Gospels in l. hand | |
Reverse Legend: | [] | |
Reverse Type: | Emperor bust [traces] wearing stemma, divitision, and chlamys; holds in r. hand scepter cruciger, and in l., globus cruciger | |
Axis Clock: | 6 | |
Weight Description: | 2.90 | |
Weight: | 2.90 | |
Diameter: | 15 | |
Chronology: | AD 1092 - AD 1118 | |
Findspot Description: | Agora NE Excavation Date: 5/18/1936, #11-20 Notebook: 157 p. 158, . | |
Notes: | Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Identification virtually certain. | |
Reference: | Hendy p. 87-88, Type C, Plates: 8:3-4; BMC p. 549, Type 4 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Image: digital 2010 2228 Image: digital 2010 2229 Image: digital 2010 2230 |