Corinth Coin: 1937 120
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1937 120
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Tetarteron of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1937
Coin Number:   120
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   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:   [TV]K-[M]N
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 uncertain type
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   4.41
Weight:   4.41
Diameter:   21
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Findspot Description:   Agora S.C.
Excavation Date: 12/7/1937, #101-120
Notebook: 176 p. 120, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Negatives: 04-29-35, 36
Another example (lozenge cross): 1967-1154
Another example: 1988-16 (2.70 grams)
Reference:   DOC IV p. 237, 40a.4; Hendy p. 88, Third Coinage, Plate 8.10; Ed. p. 142, 122
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 2321
Image: digital 2010 2322
Image: digital 2010 2323