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ID number: BIRBI-B0844 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: Half-follis Place made: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 529-531 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.70 Weight (g): 9.47 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 0744. A.H. Baldwin, October 1952, "from a pre-1939 odd lot". |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Justinian facing r. wearing diadem, curiass and paludamentum. Reverse: Cross in l. field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: […]ANVS PP AVI (Our lord Justinian, emperor in perpetuity). Reverse: K (20). Mint mark: THЄЧᵒP.
Bibliography: DOC I. 208 (for reverse type, 203 for obverse type); MIB I, 134
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