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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B1552 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Justin II; Sophia; Carthage Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Carthage Culture: Byzantine Date made: 572-573 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.30 Weight (g): 10.52 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 5904. R.M. Cunningham, February 1951. |
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Description: Obverse: Busts of Justin and Sophia facing; Sophia wearing crown with pendilia, Justin wearing plumed helmet with pendilia, and cuirass; cross between them. Reverse: K with cross above. Inscriptions: Obverse: D N IVST INO … (To our lords Justin and Sophia); in exergue: V… (Life). Reverse: ANNO VIII (Year 8). Mint mark: K… Control mark: S (6). Bibliography: MIB II 76
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4 Related People | |
| Justin II Byzantine c.520 October 578 | |
| Carthage Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Sophia Byzantine Before 530 After 600 | |
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