Corinth Coin: 1938 345
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1938 345
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Follis of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1081 - AD 1092)
Year:   1938
Coin Number:   345
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Follis
Mint:   Thessalonika
Authority:   Alexius I
Obverse Legend:   MR-UN
Obverse Type:   Virgin bust nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, holds beardless, nimbate Christ on breast; pearl border
Reverse Legend:    +LLEJI-DECPOTTVK
Reverse Type:   Emperor full-length wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jewelled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l., globus cruciger; pearl border
Axis Clock:   5
Weight Description:   4.98
Weight:   4.98
Diameter:   25
Chronology:   AD 1081 - AD 1092
Findspot Description:   St. John's So.
2/1/1938, 40-52
Notebook: 181, p. 421, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Clipped
Reference:   Hendy p. 75, Type A, Plate 3:1; Edwards p. 142, 121
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 2201
Image: digital 2010 2202
Image: digital 2010 2203