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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B0308 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Justinian I; Constantinople Denomination: Solidus Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 545-565 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.20 Weight (g): 4.47 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1108. A. H. Baldwin April 1962 from a wartime sale. |
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Description: Obverse: Facing bust of Justinian, wearing cuirass with three pellets on breast and plumed helmet with pendilia, r. hand holding globus cruciger, shield on l. shoulder. Reverse: Victoria standing facing, holding long cross with chrismon at top in r. hand and globus cruciger in l. hand. Star in r. of field. Earlier larger design of long cross without P duplicated in l. of field. Inscriptions: Obverse: DN IVSTINI ANVS PPAVI (Our lord Justinian Emperor in perpetuity). Reverse: VICTORI AAVCCC (Imperial Victory). Control mark: Z (7). Mint mark: CONOB. Bibliography: DOC I. pl. XIII AV9g, MIB 1 pl.13 7 Notes: Overstruck on long cross type, reverse on reverse. |
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3 Related People | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Justinian I Byzantine c.482 14th November 565 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
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