tetarteron / Bronze

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 1991.02.1300
Object Name: tetarteron
Lot: Monks, Dr. George Richard
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Coins
Materials: Bronze
Weight: 2.89
Quantity: 1
Pierced: no
Inscribed: no
Artifact Obverse Inscription: in angles of cross, C Φ; ΑΛ Δ
Artifact Reverse Inscription: ΤWΚ Ο [ΜΝ?]
Verbatim Date: 1092-1118 AD
Production Site: site
Denomination: tetarteron
Authority: Alexius_I_Comnenus
Mint: Thessalonica
Overstruck: no
Countermark: no
Pierced: no
Coin Obverse Description: Jeweled, radiate cross, decorated at end of each limb with one large globule, X at center, all on two steps. Trace of bronze disease.
Coin Obverse Inscription: in angles of cross, C Φ; ΑΛ Δ
Coin Reverse Description: Bust of Alexius I facing, wearing stemma, divitision, and jeweled loros of traditional type; holds in right hand a sceptre cruciger, and in left hand a globus crucifer. Trace of bronze disease.
Inscription Obverse Text: in angles of cross, C Φ; ΑΛ Δ
Publication Title: Catalogue of the imperial Byzantine coins in the British Museum, Vol. 2; Byzantine Coins; Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection, Vol. 4: Alexius I to Michael VIII, 1081-1261
Publication Author: Wroth, Warwick; Grierson, Philip; Bellinger, Alfred R., Grierson, Philip and Hendry, Michael F.
Publication Year: 1908; 1982; 1966-2006
Type Category: Numismatic

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Image Size: 2272 x 1704
File Size: 172 KB
Record: 1991.02.1300
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1991.02.1300/1991_02_1300p02.tif

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Full citation: "tetarteron; Bronze." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1991.02.1300/1991_02_1300p02.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.

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