Corinth Coin: 1933 2071
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1933 2071
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Coin of Alexius I (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1933
Coin Number:   2071
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:    [TVK O 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
Axis Clock:   7
Weight Description:   2.68
Weight:   2.68
Diameter:   19.5
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Findspot Description:   Agora SE
Excavation Date: 5/30/1933, #14-27
Notebook 139, p. 6, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Separated from original card (Card #864) - one of 2 coins
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 236, 40a.1 ff.; Hendy, pl. 8, 10-12; BMC, p.551, type 9
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 2496
Image: digital 2010 2497
Image: digital 2010 2498