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ID number: BIRBI-B0020 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Anastasius I; Constantinople Denomination: Semissis Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 491-492 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 1.80 Weight (g): 2.19 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1089. A.H. Baldwin, February 1952. "From a wartime sale." |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Anastasius facing r. wearing diadem, curiass and paludamentum. Reverse: Victory seated on shield and cuirass facing r. inscribing shield with crosses, with star to l. field, chrison in r. field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D N ANASTΛS IVS PERP AVC (Our lord Anastasius, emperor in perpetuity). Reverse: VICTORIA AVCCC (Imperial victory). Mint mark: CONOB.
Bibliography: MIB I, 8
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