Co 1132 (Middle Byzantine tetarteron of Alexios I from Thessalonica) [permalink] [show fewer links]

Type

Inventoried Coin

Not after (date)

1118

Not before (date)

1092

Comment

JLR 2024: GET COIN AND CHECK PIX

Logical part of

Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins

Typological identification

Coin

Comparanda

DOCIV.1 Alexios 40a, pp. 236–238 (fourth coinage of Thessalonica)

Preservation comment

Wear: P.

Published as

KenchreaiIII, p. 73, no. 1232 (R. Hohlfelder identified as “Indeterminate Monogram, Sixth Century, Nummus”)

Axis (1-12)

6

Has denomination

Tetarteron

Numismatic Authority

Alexius I Comnenus (1081-1118)

Numismatic Diameter (mm)

19.5

Numismatic Mint

Thessalonica

Numismatic Weight (g)

1.94

Obverse Description

Jeweled, radiate cross on two steps with one large globule and two small pellets at end of each arm; within dotted border (traces)

Reverse Description

Facing half-figure of emperor wearing diadem and jeweled loros, holding globus cruciger in left hand and scepter cruciger in right hand (traces)

Belongs to Historical Period

Middle Byzantine (Historical Period)

Material

Bronze (Material)

Has visual motif (depicts)

Christian Cross (Visual Motif)