Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Coin | |
Name: | 1934 204 | |
Title: | Byzantine Copper/Bronze Tetarteron of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118) | |
Year: | 1934 | |
Coin Number: | 204 | |
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 | |
Axis Clock: | 12 | |
Weight Description: | 3.44 | |
Weight: | 3.44 | |
Diameter: | 28 | |
Chronology: | AD 1092 - AD 1118 | |
Findspot Description: | Agora Southwest Excavation Date: 2/22/1934 Notebook: 140 p. 40, . | |
Notes: | Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Fabric Large flan; cracked at edges Hoard Another example: 1940-9 (near fabric) | |
Reference: | DOC IV p. 237, 40a.4; Hendy p. 88, Third Coinage, plate 8.10 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Image: digital 2010 2306 Image: digital 2010 2307 Image: digital 2010 2308 |