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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B1509 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Justin II; Sophia; Antioch Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 571-572 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.50 Weight (g): 5.82 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1806. Glendining, 3rd May 1951. |
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Description: Obverse: Justin and Sophia, nimbate, seated on a lyre-backed double throne facing; Sophia wearing a trefoil ornament, holding a sceptre in l.hand; Justin wearing a trefoil ornament, holding a sceptre in r. hand; globus cruciger positioned in between them, Sophia holding it with her r. hand, and Justin with his l. hand. Reverse: K with cross above. Inscriptions: Obverse: V N ΛL7 [in retrograde] τ NAτ … (garbled inscription). Reverse: ANNO IIЧ (Year 7). Mint mark: P, with tail. Bibliography: MIB II 60a
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4 Related People | |
| Justin II Byzantine c.520 October 578 | |
| Sophia Byzantine Before 530 After 600 | |
| Antioch | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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