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ID number:  BIRBI-B1578
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Justin II; Carthage
Denomination:  Pentanummium
Place made:  Carthage
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  567-572
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  1.60
Weight (g):  2.06
Axis (degrees):  270.00
Provenance:  Whitting 3853. A.H. Baldwin, 2nd June 1959.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Justin facing, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and plumed helmet with diadem with pendilia, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: Cruciform monogram of Justin.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: … V … PP AV (Our lord Justin, eternal Augustus). Reverse: None.

Bibliography:  MIB II 82

3 Related People

Justin II
Byzantine
c.520
October 578
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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Carthage
Roman;Byzantine


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