Corinth Coin: 1938 383
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1938 383
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Coin of Alexius I (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1938
Coin Number:   383
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, decorated at end of each limb with one large globule and two smaller, all on two steps; letters in angles
Reverse Legend:    [TVKO MN]
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 with pellets
Axis Clock:   11
Weight Description:   2.33
Weight:   2.33
Diameter:   19.5
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Findspot Description:   Agora S.C.
Excavation Date: 4/11/1938, #45-75
Notebook 175, p. 115, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Imitation
Separated from original card - one of 3 coins
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 236, 40a.1 ff.; Hendy, p. 88, pl. 8, 11-12; Edwards, p. 142, 122
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 2523
Image: digital 2010 2524
Image: digital 2010 2525