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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B0204
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Justin I; Constantinople; Herakleios; Sicily
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  518-527; 610-613
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  3.10
Weight (g):  13.78
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Haines 3638. A.H. Baldwin, 1961.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Justin facing r. wearing diadem, curiass and paludamentum. Reverse: Cross above, star in l. field and cross in r. field.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: DH I[…] (Our lord Justin, emperor in perpetuity). Reverse: M (40). Mint mark: […]N; Mint mark on Countermark: SЄLS. Control mark: […].

Bibliography:  DOC I. 9; MIB I, 12 (For the Justin coin); DOC II.1 241a.2 (For the Herakleian countermark)

Notes:  With Herakleian Sicilian countermark.

5 Related People

Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


Herakleios I
Byzantine
c.575
641
Sicily
Roman;Ostrogothic;Italian;Aghlabid;Norman;Sicilian


Haines_Geoffrey-T.jpg
Haines, Geoffrey Colton
British
1899
1981-09-14
Justin I
Byzantine
c.450
1st August 527
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