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: | ||
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 |