Corinth Coin: 1934 204
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-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:   []
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