Corinth Coin: 1974 59
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1974 59
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Half Tetarteron? of Alexius I (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
    Coin
Year:   1974
Coin Number:   59
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Half Tetarteron?
Authority:   Alexius I
Comments:   (1092 - 1118), post reform - Imitative Series
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:   no inscription
Reverse Type:   Bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, and jeweled loros of traditional type; holds in r. hand scepter cruciger, and in l. globus cruciger
Axis Clock:   10
Weight Description:   0.79
Weight:   0.79
Diameter:   18
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Context:   NB597 B31 P27
Findspot Description:   Forum W, Grid 66F
Excavation Date: 4/3/1974
Notebook 597, p. 27, Basket 31, .
    NB597 B31 P27, .
Area:   Forum
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Imitation of 3rd Coinage
Imperial dress (crude) - jewel border -
    Record generated from NB catalogue.
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 236, 40a.1 ff.; Hendy, p. 88, pl. 8, 10-12
Published:   Hesperia 1975, p. 50, 333
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Williams & Fisher, Hesperia 44:1, 1975
Image: digital 2010 2535
Image: digital 2010 2536
Image: digital 2010 2537