Corinth Coin: 1938 407
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1938 407
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Follis of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1081 - AD 1092)
Year:   1938
Coin Number:   407
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:    +LLEJI-DECPOTTOK
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:   6
Weight Description:   3.06
Weight:   3.06
Diameter:   25
Chronology:   AD 1081 - AD 1092
Findspot Description:   Museum W.
11/14/1938, 1-10
Notebook: 184, p. 31, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Reference:   Hendy p. 75, Thessalonica Type A, Plate 3:1; Edwards p.142, 121
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 2195
Image: digital 2010 2196
Image: digital 2010 2197