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Corinth Coin: 1974 72
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1974 72
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Follis of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1081 - AD 1092)
Year:   1974
Coin Number:   72
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Follis
Mint:   Thessalonika
Authority:   Alexius I
Obverse Legend:    [MR] UN
Obverse Type:   Virgin bust nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, holds beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast; large dot border
Reverse Legend:    [+LLEJI-DECPOTTVK]
Reverse Type:   Emperor full-length wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jewelled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l., globus cruciger.
Under Type:   Overstruck on anonymous follis, Class K
Axis Clock:   5
Weight Description:   4.94
Weight:   4.94
Diameter:   23x28
Chronology:   AD 1081 - AD 1092
Context:   NB597 B32 P27
Findspot Description:   Forum west; grid 66 F
Excavation date: 4/3/1974
Notebook: 597 p. 27
Basket: 32, NB597 B32 P27, .
Area:   Forum
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Clipped
Around periphery of reverse, incongruous + and letters? This may be 3rd type, but Emp?
Reference:   Hendy p.75, Thassalonica Type A, Plate. 3:1
Published:   Hesperia 1975, p. 49, 318
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Williams & Fisher, Hesperia 44:1, 1975
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