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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B0411
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Justinian I; Constantinople
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  527-538
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  3.10
Weight (g):  15.85
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 1436. A. H. Baldwin October 1949.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Justinian r., wearing paludamentum and diadem. Reverse: M, cross above, crosses in l. of field and in r. of field.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: DN IVS... ...AV (Our lord Justinian Emperor in perpetuity). Reverse: None. Off: Є (5). Mint mark: CON.

Bibliography:  DOC I. pl.XIV AE29b.1, MIB I pl.19 87

3 Related People

Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Justinian I
Byzantine
c.482
14th November 565
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