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ID number: BIRBI-B3643 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Justinian I; Sicily Denomination: Follis Place made: Sicily Culture: Byzantine Date made: 527-538 and 610-641 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.10 Weight (g): 14.27 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3315. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Justinian r. wearing diadem; beneath, countermark, bearded bust of Herakleios facing wearing cross crown, Herakleian monogram to r. Reverse: M with star l., cross r., and cross above; beneath, countermark, SCLs.
Inscriptions: Obverse: DN IVSTINI ANVS PP AV (Our lord Justinian eternal augustus). Reverse: SCLs (Sicily).
Bibliography: DOC II.1 AE241
Notes: Countermarked.
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