Corinth Coin: T 1928 341
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   T 1928 341
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Tetarteron of Alexius I, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1928
Coin Number:   341
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:   TOK-O-[]
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 on ____
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   1.98
Weight:   1.98
Diameter:   21
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Findspot Description:   Theater, East; Parodos
Excavation Date: 3/9/1928
Notebook: 320 p. 420, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Reverse: traces of Virgin's head and halo??
cut-down
C, F, M, D over Alexius' bust: 1936-1145
Reference:   DOC IV p. 237, 40a.4; Hendy p. 88, Third Coinage, Plate 8.10
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 2297
Image: digital 2010 2298
Image: digital 2010 2299