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ID number: BIRBI-B4393 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: 694-695 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.30 Weight (g): 4.50 Axis (degrees): 225.00 Provenance: Whitting 1672. Bought Spink January 1961. |

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Description: Obverse: bust of Justinian II facing, wearing chlamys, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: M with cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ...NUS (Justinian) Reverse: A… ЧIII... (year 9). Off. A (1)?
Bibliography: MIB III Justinian II pl.39 Küpfer 44.2; DOC II.2 Justinian II pl.XXXVII AE 18a.3
Notes: Coin is overstuck, not clear on what. Dated as year 9 because of position of Is, though 4th I is not visible, and two of the Is have bled into one another to from a single elongated I.
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