Corinth Coin: 1936 1732
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1936 1732
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Coin of Alexius I (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1936
Coin Number:   1732
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:   no inscription
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:   1
Weight Description:   1.67
Weight:   1.67
Diameter:   18
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Findspot Description:   Agora SC
Excavation Date: 5/20/1936, 74-90
Notebook 159, p. 331, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Imitation
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 236, 40a.1 ff.; Hendy, p. 88, pl. 8, 10-12
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 2529
Image: digital 2010 2530
Image: digital 2010 2531