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ID number: BIRBI-B0358 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; South Russia Hoard Maker: Justinian I; Constantinople Denomination: Lightweight solidus (20 siliquae) Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 562-565 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 1.90 Weight (g): 3.74 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 667. A. H. Baldwin, September 1957, from Paris 1955. "Said to have come from a hoard of some 300 similar pieces in South Russia found after 1914 war and all but 30 or so subsequently melted." |

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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 plain cross in r. hand and globus without cross in l. hand. Star in r. of field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: DN IVSTINI ANVS PPAVI (Our lord Justinian Emperor in perpetuity). Reverse: VICTORI AAVCCC (Imperial Victory). Control mark: I (10). Mint mark: OBXX.
Bibliography: MIB 1 pl.14 16 (photographed coin)
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