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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B0319 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Akkar Hoard Maker: Justinian I; Constantinople Denomination: Solidus Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 545-565 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.20 Weight (g): 4.31 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 782. A. H. Baldwin 2nd January 1959, from Hama II (Akkar hoard). 1958. |
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Description: Obverse: Facing bust of Justinian, wearing cuirass without 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. Cross in left of field from overstriking. Inscriptions: Obverse: VICTORI TINI ANVS PPAVI (Our lord Justinian Emperor in perpetuity). Reverse: DN IVSTINI AAVCCC (Imperial Victory). Control mark: B (2). Mint mark: CONOB. Bibliography: DOC I. pl. XIII AV9b, MIB 1 pl.13 7 Notes: Overstrike on same die identity, obv. on rev. |
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4 Related People | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Justinian I Byzantine c.482 14th November 565 | |
| Akkar Hoard | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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