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- | |
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 | |
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 |