Corinth Coin: T 1925 4202
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   T 1925 4202
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Half Tetarteron of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1925
Coin Number:   4202
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Half Tetarteron
Mint:   Thessalonika
Authority:   Alexius I
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:   +L[]-DC
Reverse Type:   Emperor bust, wearing stemma, divitision, and jeweled loros of traditional type, in r. hand, scepter cruciger, in l., globus cruciger
Under Type:   Overstruck on Hendy p. 88, First coinage, plates 8.7-8
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   2.21
Weight:   2.21
Diameter:   19
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Findspot Description:   Theater
Excavation Date: 4/9/1925, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Negatives: 05-24-5,6
New Variant of Issue
02-Group A
Other examples: 1974-24, 1978-105, 1974-648
Reference:   DOC IV p. 237, 40a.4; Hendy p. 88, Third Coinage, Plate 8.10
Published:   Hesperia 1987, p. 143, 671
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: MacIsaac, Hesperia 56:2, 1987