Corinth Coin: 1988 3
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1988 3
Title:   Byzantine Billon Tetarteron of Alexius I, Constantinople Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1988
Coin Number:   3
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   Bi
Denomination:   Tetarteron
Mint:   Constantinople
Authority:   Alexius I
Obverse Legend:   [IC-XC]
Obverse Type:   Christ bust, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and colobion, holds Gospels in l. hand
Reverse Legend:   [+LLEJIV]-D[EC]
Reverse Type:   Bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and panelled loros of simplified type, holds in r. hand labarum-headed scepter, and in l., globus cruciger
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   3.53
Weight:   3.53
Diameter:   16
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Context:   NB800 B5 P46
Findspot Description:   Temple E; Decumanus; 87-ZW Grid; general fill
Excavation Date: 4/5/1988
Notebook: 800 p. 46
Basket: 5, NB800 B5 P46, .
Elevation:   87.63
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Extra worn and damaged
Identification certain
Reference:   Hendy p. 87, Type A, Plates: 7:10-11
Published:   Hesperia 1989, p. 47, 80
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Williams & Zervos, Hesperia 58:1, 1989
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