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ID number:  BIRBI-B0452
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:  Follis
Place made:  Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  541-542
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  3.80
Weight (g):  23.40
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 0979. Glendining 3rd May 1951.
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Description:  Obverse: Facing bust of Justinian, wearing cuirass and plumed helmet with pendilia, in r. hand globus cruciger, on l. shoulder shield with horseman device, cross in r. of field. Reverse: M, cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: DN IVSTINI ANVS PPAVI (Our lord Justinian Emperor in perpetuity). Reverse: ANNO XЧ (year 15). Off: B (2). Mint mark: CON.

Bibliography:  DOC I. pl.XVII AE40b.1, MIB I pl.20 95b

3 Related People

Justinian I
Byzantine
c.482
14th November 565
Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
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