Corinth Coin: 1974 38
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1974 38
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Tetarteron of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1974
Coin Number:   38
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Tetarteron
Mint:   Thessalonika
Authority:   Alexius I
Obverse Legend:   C-F/M-D
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 anonymous follis class K and ...
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   3.43
Weight:   3.43
Diameter:   24
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Context:   NB597 B11 P17
Findspot Description:   Forum West; F 66; Between elevations: 82.96-82.87
Excavation Date: 4/2/1974
Notebook: 597 p. 17
Basket: 11, NB597 B11 P17, .
Area:   Forum
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Also see T1925-495
Reference:   DOC IV p. 237, 40a.4; Hendy p. 88, Third Coinage, Plate 8.10
Published:   Hesperia 1975, p. 49, 319
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Williams & Fisher, Hesperia 44:1, 1975
Image: digital 2010 2315
Image: digital 2010 2316
Image: digital 2010 2317