Corinth Coin: 1938 367
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1938 367
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Follis of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1081 - AD 1092)
Year:   1938
Coin Number:   367
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 head of Christ on breast
Reverse Legend:    +LL[EJI-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:   5.81
Weight:   5.81
Diameter:   25.5
Chronology:   AD 1081 - AD 1092
Findspot Description:   Agora S.C.
Excavation date: 3/28/1938, 26-31
Notebook: 176 p. 29, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Reference:   Hendy p. 75, Thessalonica Type A, Plate. 3:1; Edwards p. 142, 121; BMC p. 550, type 8
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 2192
Image: digital 2010 2193
Image: digital 2010 2194