Co 1108 (Middle Byzantine tetarteron of Alexios I from Thessalonica) [permalink] [show fewer 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

Reverse Photograph