Corinth Coin: 1938 355
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1938 355
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Tetarteron of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1938
Coin Number:   355
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:   [+LL]-D[C]
Reverse Type:   Emperor bust, wearing stemma, divitision, and jeweled loros of traditional type, in r. hand, scepter cruciger, in l., globus cruciger
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   2.82
Weight:   2.82
Diameter:   17
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Findspot Description:   Agora SC
Excavation Date: 2/21/1938, #1-15
Notebook: ? p. 15, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Negatives: 04-31-5,6
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 2381
Image: digital 2010 2382
Image: digital 2010 2383