Corinth Coin: 1982 10
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1982 10
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Tetarter of Alexius I, Thessalonica Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1982
Coin Number:   10
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   tetarter
Mint:   Thessalonica
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
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   2.22
Weight:   2.22
Diameter:   17
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Context:   NB739 B182 P71
Findspot Description:   Theater, East of; 93 BD; general fill
Excavation Date: 4/26/1982
Notebook: 739 p. 71
Basket: 182, NB739 B182 P71, .
Area:   East of Theater
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
On reverse, simple 'X'
Reference:   DOC IV p. 237, 40a.4; Hendy p. 88, Third Coinage, Plate 8.10
Published:   Hesperia 1983, p. 44, 88
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Williams & Zervos, Hesperia 52:1, 1983
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