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ID number:  BIRBI-B0776
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Justinian I; Antioch
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Antioch
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  531-536
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  3.30
Weight (g):  15.68
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 0793. Hall sale, November 1950, ex lot 2324, from A.H. Baldwin 8th November 1922.
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Description:  Obverse: Justinian enthroned facing, wearing diadem and chlamys, holding sceptre in r. hand and globus cruciger in l. hand. Reverse: Cross above, star in l. field and crsecent in r. field.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: ON IVSTINI ANVS PP AV (Our lord Justinian, emperor in perpetuity). Reverse: M (40). Mint mark: +THЄUP. Control mark: Δ(4).

Bibliography:  DOC I. 206d; MIB I, 130

3 Related People

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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Antioch



Justinian I
Byzantine
c.482
14th November 565
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