- Co 1108 (Middle Byzantine tetarteron of Alexios I from Thessalonica) [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Coin
- Not after (date)
- 1118
- Not before (date)
- 1092
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
- Typological identification
- Coin
- Comparanda
- DOCIV Alexios 40a, pp. 236–238 (Thessalonica Fourth Coinage)
- Description
- Clipped down into uneven pentagon or hexagon with rounded segments.
- Preservation comment
- Wear: aG. Extensive, moderate pitting to cratering with slight, sparse fissuring and flaking.
- Published as
- KenchreaiIII, p. 78, no. 1231 (R. Hohlfelder identified as “Uncertain Byzantine“)
- Axis (1-12)
- 6
- Has denomination
- Tetarteron
- Numismatic Authority
- Alexius I Comnenus (1081-1118)
- Numismatic Diameter (mm)
- 17.0
- Numismatic Mint
- Thessalonica
- Numismatic Weight (g)
- 2.51
- Obverse Description
- Half-length bust of Alexios facing, crowned, wearing stemma, divitision, and jeweled loros, holding globus cruciger in left hand and scepter cruciger in right hand
- Obverse Inscription
- ΤⲰ Κ[-Ο-ΜΗΝ]
- Reverse Description
- Jeweled, radiate cross [on two steps] with globule flanked by two pellets at end of each arm
- Reverse Inscription
- In angles, Ϲ – Φ | [ΑΛ] – Δ
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Middle Byzantine (Historical Period)
- Material
- Bronze (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Christian Cross (Visual Motif)
- Obverse Photograph
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- Reverse Photograph
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“Co 1108 (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/ke/co1108>
