Kenchreai Archaeological Archive: KC026 (Middle Byzantine tetarteron of Alexios I from Thessalonica)

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Type: Inventoried Object
Not after (date): 1118
Not before (date): 1092
Logical part of: Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Typological identification: Coin
Comparanda: DOCIV Alexios I 40b, p. 238 (Thessalonica Fourth Coinage)
Description: Clipped on three to four sides and rounded around rest of margin.
Preservation comment: Wear: F. Very slight pitting; faint, thin, white bronze disease on both faces.
Published as: Weir2022, pp. 1141, 1142, no. 853, fig. 23.14
Axis (1-12): 12
Has denomination: Tetarteron
Numismatic Authority: Alexius I Comnenus (1081-1118)
Numismatic Diameter (mm): 19.0
Numismatic Mint: Thessalonica
Numismatic Weight (g): 2.66
Obverse Description: Jeweled, radiate cross with one globule flanked by two pellets at end of each arm; within dotted border
Obverse Inscription: In angles, Ϲ - Φ | ΑΛ - Δ
Reverse Description: Facing bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, and jeweled loros, holding globus cruciger in left hand and scepter cruciger in right hand (schematic?)
Reverse Inscription: [ΤⲰ Κ]-Ο-[ΜΗΝ]
Belongs to Historical Period: Middle Byzantine (Historical Period)
Material: Bronze (Material)
Has visual motif (depicts): Christian Cross (Visual Motif)
Suggested citation: “KC026 (Middle Byzantine tetarteron of Alexios I from Thessalonica).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/gaek/kc026>