Corinth Coin: 1938 408
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1938 408
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Tetarteron of Alexius I (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1938
Coin Number:   408
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Tetarteron
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:    T[VK O MN]
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
Axis Clock:   12
Weight Description:   3.375
Weight:   3.375
Diameter:   22
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Findspot Description:   St. John's S.
Excavation Date: 1/31/1938, #22-30
Notebook 181, p. 415
Notebook, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Imitation
Separated from original card
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 236, 40a.1 ff.; Hendy, pl. 8, 10-12; Edwards, p. 142, 122
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 2505
Image: digital 2010 2506
Image: digital 2010 2507