Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Coin | |
Name: | 1988 102 | |
Title: | Byzantine Copper/Bronze Tetarteron of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118) | |
Year: | 1988 | |
Coin Number: | 102 | |
Period: | Byzantine | |
Material: | AE | |
Denomination: | Tetarteron | |
Mint: | Thessalonika | |
Authority: | Alexius I | |
Obverse Legend: | C- | |
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: | [] | |
Reverse Type: | Emperor bust, wearing stemma, divitision, and jeweled loros of traditional type, in r. hand, scepter cruciger, in l., globus cruciger | |
Symbol: | Overstruck on Anonymous follis Class K; and on Anonymous Follis Class J | |
Axis Clock: | 12 | |
Weight Description: | 5.71 | |
Weight: | 5.71 | |
Diameter: | 24 x 20 | |
Chronology: | AD 1092 - AD 1118 | |
Findspot Description: | Decumanus; S. of Temple E; Grid, 87:ZW; Lot 88-21 Excavation Date: 4/19/1988 Notebook: 800 p. 95 Basket: 37, . | |
Elevation: | 86.56 | |
Notes: | Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Originally cited and published in Hesperia as pre-reform (1092-1118) follis (citing Hendy pl. 3.2) | |
Reference: | DOC IV p. 237, 40a.4; Hendy p. 88, Third Coinage, Plate 8.10 | |
Published: | Hesperia 1989, p. 47, 79 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Williams & Zervos, Hesperia 58:1, 1989 |