Corinth Coin: 1963 451
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1963 451
Title:   Byzantine Httr of Alexius I postreform, Thessalonica Mint
    Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Probably Half Tetarteron Or Light Standard of Alexius I (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1963
Coin Number:   451
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   httr
    Probably Half tetarteron or light standard
Mint:   Thessalonica
Authority:   Alexius I postreform
    Alexius I
Comments:   3rd coinge
    (1092 - 1118), post reform - Imitative Series, 3rd Coinage
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‰K
     TVK [O MN]
Reverse Type:   Emp bust facg w glb-cr + sc-cr
    Bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, and jeweled loros of traditional type; holds in r. hand scepter cruciger, and in l. globus cruciger
Under Type:   overstruck
Axis Clock:   0
    7
Weight Description:   2.05
Weight:   2.05
Diameter:   19.5
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Context:   NB245 P153
Findspot Description:   Oakley S, NB245 P153, .
    Oakley So.
Excavation Date: 4/22/1963, #7
Notebook 245, p. 153, .
Area:   Oakley south
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Imitation of 3rd Coinage
Reference:   Hendy pl 8,10-12 cf
    DOC IV.1, p. 236, 40a.1 ff.; Hendy, pl. 8, 10-12;
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Images (5)
Basket: NB245 P153