Corinth Coin: 1937 97
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1937 97
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Coin of Alexius I (1092 - 1118), post reform (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1937
Coin Number:   97
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Authority:   Alexius I (1092 - 1118), post reform
Obverse Legend:   In field, IC - X[C]
Obverse Type:   Full-length figure of Christ, [bearded] and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion
Reverse Legend:   [+LLE JIVDEC] or variant
Reverse Type:   Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds labarum in r. hand, and in l., globus cruciger
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   3.12
Weight:   3.12
Diameter:   17
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Findspot Description:   Agora N.C.
Excavation Date: 10/27/1937, #60-69
Notebook 171, p.113, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Another Example: 65-1036; boldly clipped
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 239, 43; Hendy, p. 89, pl. 8, 16; Edwards, p. 142, 120
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Images (6)