Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Coin | |
Name: | 1974 38 | |
Title: | Byzantine Copper/Bronze Tetarteron of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118) | |
Year: | 1974 | |
Coin Number: | 38 | |
Period: | Byzantine | |
Material: | AE | |
Denomination: | Tetarteron | |
Mint: | Thessalonika | |
Authority: | Alexius I | |
Obverse Legend: | C- | |
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: | [] | |
Reverse Type: | Emperor bust, [wearing stemma, divitision, and jeweled loros of traditional type, in r. hand, scepter cruciger, in l., globus cruciger] | |
Under Type: | Overstruck on anonymous follis class K and ... | |
Axis Clock: | 6 | |
Weight Description: | 3.43 | |
Weight: | 3.43 | |
Diameter: | 24 | |
Chronology: | AD 1092 - AD 1118 | |
Context: | NB597 B11 P17 | |
Findspot Description: | Forum West; F 66; Between elevations: 82.96-82.87 Excavation Date: 4/2/1974 Notebook: 597 p. 17 Basket: 11, NB597 B11 P17, . | |
Area: | Forum | |
Notes: | Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Also see T1925-495 | |
Reference: | DOC IV p. 237, 40a.4; Hendy p. 88, Third Coinage, Plate 8.10 | |
Published: | Hesperia 1975, p. 49, 319 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Williams & Fisher, Hesperia 44:1, 1975 Image: digital 2010 2315 Image: digital 2010 2316 Image: digital 2010 2317 |