Corinth Coin: 1950 8
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1950 8
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Tetarteron of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1950
Coin Number:   8
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
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   2.50
Weight:   2.50
Diameter:   16
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Findspot Description:   Julian Basilica; a strosis
Excavation Date: 7/28/1950, #1
Notebook: 201 p. 48, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Negatives: 04-29-29,30
Clipped
Another example: 1968-642 (polygonal, 2.38 grams)
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 2282
Image: digital 2010 2283
Image: digital 2010 2284