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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4392 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: Follis Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 689-692? Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.90 Weight (g): 9.63 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1936. Bought Spink August 1956. |
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Description: Obverse: bust of Justinian II facing, wearing chlamys, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. No impression of overtype in top l. of field, with cross of undertype visible (in top r. of undertype field) Reverse: M with cross above. Undertype mint mark and K outline also visible. Inscriptions: Obverse: …ANUS PEA (Justinian eternal Augustus) Reverse: …N… IЧ [reverse] (year 4 or 6?). Mint Mark: …N . Bibliography: MIB III Justinian II pl.39 Küpfer 44.1; DOC II.2 Justinian II pl.XXXVII AE 18a.1 Notes: Coin is overstuck on a Constantine IV 20 nummi DOC class 1, but cross top r. of obv. field which is not like any others of this class. Dated to either year 4 or 6, 4 usually rendered IIII, not IЧ, but Ч in reverse may indicate ЧI engraved in reverse. |
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3 Related People | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Justinian II Byzantine c. 668 7 November 711 | |
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