Description
Collection Number: WC 11119
Object Number:
Dates: 1092 - 1093
Denomination: Tetarteron Noummion
Dimensions: 19.16mm
Weight: 1.70g
Authority: Alexius I Comnenus
Mint: ThessalonicaThessaloniki
Languages: Greek
Obverse Type: C - / M - A; Jewelled radiate cross, decorated at end of each limb with one large globule and two smaller, all on two steps
Obverse Legend:
C - θ / M - Λ
Obverse Inscription Languages: Greek
Obverse Mintmarks:
N/A
Obverse Inscription Comment: Irregular legend
Reverse Type: TK O ; Bust of emperor, wearing stemma, divitision and jewelled loros of traditional type; holds in right hand sceptre cruciger and in left globus cruciger
Reverse Legend:
[TK O ]
Reverse Inscription Languages: Greek
Reverse Mintmarks:
N/A
Reverse Inscription Comments: N/A
Bibliography
cf. DOC IV pp. 236-238 n. 40a12, Plate VII
BNP p. 685 nn. 14-22 Plate XCV
BMC Byz vol. 2, pp. 551-552 nn. 49-55, Plate LXV,21
Ratto p. 108 n. 2085, Plate L
Sabatier p. n. 29, Plate LIII,5
Sommer p. 334 n. 59.26
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