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ID number:  BIRBI-B0555
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:  Decanummium
Place made:  Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  556-557
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  1.70
Weight (g):  4.20
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 2404. A.H. Baldwin, 13th March 1954.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust r. of Justinian wearing plumed helmet with diadem and paludamentum. Reverse: I, cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: DII IVCTI... IIII PPIVI (Our lord Justinian Emperor in perpetuity). Reverse: ... XXX (Year 30). Off: None. Mint mark: ...

Bibliography:  DOC I. pl. XXII AE91.2, MIB 1 pl. 21 100.2

3 Related People

Justinian I
Byzantine
c.482
14th November 565
Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
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