Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Coin | |
Name: | 1970 281 | |
Title: | Byzantine Copper/Bronze Tetarterion of Alexius I Comnenus, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118) | |
Coin | ||
Year: | 1970 | |
Coin Number: | 281 | |
Period: | Byzantine | |
Material: | AE | |
Denomination: | Tetarterion | |
Mint: | Thessalonika | |
Authority: | Alexius I Comnenus | |
Obverse Legend: | In field, IC - XC | |
Obverse Type: | Full-length figure of Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds Gospels in l. hand | |
Reverse Legend: | ||
Reverse Type: | Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. globus cruciger | |
Axis Clock: | 12 | |
Weight Description: | 5.288 | |
Weight: | 5.288 | |
Diameter: | 15 | |
Chronology: | AD 1092 - AD 1118 | |
Context: | NB488 B19 P31 | |
Findspot Description: | Gymnasium, FL 6 Excavation Date: 7/21/1970 Notebook 488, p. 31, Basket 19, . | |
NB488 B19 P31, . | ||
Area: | Gymnasium | |
Notes: | Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. | |
Record generated from NB catalogue. | ||
Reference: | DOC IV.1, p. 239, no. 43; Hendy, pl. 8, 16, p. 89 Type E, post-reform | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Images (5) |