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ID number: BIRBI-B4387 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Justinian II; Constantinople Denomination: Tremissis Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: c.690-695 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 1.70 Weight (g): 1.37 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 804. Bank Leu April 1959. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, cross behind head, raising right in benediction. Reverse: Justinian bearded standing, facing, wearing loros, holding akakia in left hand and stem of cross potent on two steps.
Inscriptions: Obverse: …S CRISJDS R… RЄƷ… (Jesus Christ King of Kings). Reverse: …TINI AN …SCRЧ ChRISTI (Lord Justinian, servant of Christ).
Bibliography: MIB III, 16
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