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ID number:  BIRBI-B1581
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Justin II; Rome
Denomination:  Pentanummium
Place made:  Rome
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  565-572
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  1.70
Weight (g):  2.73
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 0253. A.H. Baldwin, August 1950.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Justin facing r., wearing diadem, paludamentum. Reverse: Є with cross to the r.; enclosed in a wreath.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: D N IVST … V … AVC (Our lord Justin, eternal Augustus). Reverse: None.

Bibliography:  MIB II 86

3 Related People

Justin II
Byzantine
c.520
October 578
Rome
Roman;Byzantine;Italian


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
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