Corinth Coin: 1929 1440
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1929 1440
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Tetarteron of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1929
Coin Number:   1440
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Tetarteron
Mint:   Thessalonika
Authority:   Alexius I
Obverse Legend:    [MR-UN]
Obverse Type:   Virgin bust nimbate, orans, wearing tunic and maphorion.
Reverse Legend:   []
Reverse Type:   Emperor bust, wearing stemma, divitision, and chlamys, in r. hand, scepter cruciger, in l., globus cruciger
Under Type:   Overstrike on virgin (same coin type?)
Axis Clock:   12
Weight Description:   3.50
Weight:   3.50
Diameter:   20
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Findspot Description:   North of Peribolos
Excavation Date: 3/26/1929
Notebook: 103 p. 11
Line: 5, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Negatives: 04-29-31,32
Reference:   DOC IV p. 236, 39.4-5; Hendy p. 88, Second Coinage, Plate 8.9
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 2276
Image: digital 2010 2277
Image: digital 2010 2278