Corinth Coin: 1937 71
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1937 71
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Follis of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1081 - AD 1092)
Year:   1937
Coin Number:   71
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Follis
Mint:   Thessalonika
Authority:   Alexius I
Obverse Legend:   [MR UN]
Obverse Type:   Virgin bust nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, holds beardless, nimbate Christ on breast
Reverse Legend:    [+LLE]J[I-DECPOTTVK]
Reverse Type:   Emperor full-length wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jewelled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l., globus cruciger
Axis Clock:   12
Weight Description:   4.60
Weight:   4.60
Diameter:   23
Chronology:   AD 1081 - AD 1092
Findspot Description:   South Stoa W
10/1/19, 11-23
Notebook: 170 p. 92, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Clipped
Reference:   Hendy p. 75, Type A, Plate 3:1; Edwards p. 142, 121
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 2204
Image: digital 2010 2205
Image: digital 2010 2206