KC026 (Middle Byzantine tetarteron of Alexios I from Thessalonica) [permalink] [show fewer links]

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)