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ID number: BIRBI-B4390 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: 685-c.690 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 1.40 Weight (g): 1.33 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1091. A. H. Baldwin February 1962 ‘from a wartime collection’. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Justinian bearded, facing, wearing chlamys and cross crown, holding globus cruciger in right hand. Reverse: Cross potent.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D IЧST INIANV (Lord Justinian). Reverse: VICT OR AV (Imperial victory). Mint mark: CONOB.
Bibliography: MIB III, 15
Notes: Imitation? Style looks possibly Ravennan (unrecorded type).
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