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ID number: BIRBI-B0667 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Justinian I; Thessalonica Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 563-564 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.30 Weight (g): 5.48 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0760. Glendining, March 1957. |

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Description: Obverse: Facing bust of Justinian, wearing curiass and plumed helmet with pendilia, in r. hand globus cruciger, on l. shoulder shield with horseman device, cross in r. of field. Reverse: K, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: DN ISTINI ANVSPPAV (Our lord Justinian Emperor in perpetuity). Reverse: ANNO XXXЧII (year 37). Mint mark: TES.
Bibliography: DOC I. pl. XXIV AE105, MIB pl. 29 180
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