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ID number: BIRBI-B4405 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Justinian II; Carthage Denomination: Follis Place made: Carthage Culture: Byzantine Date made: 687-695 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.50 Weight (g): 6.89 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 7768. Bought A. H. Baldwin 4th March 1971. |

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Description: Obverse: standing figure of Justinian II wearing jewelled chlamys (?), globus cruciger in r. hand and akakia in l., with elongated globus crucigers to l. and r. of figure. Reverse: I to l. of denomination mark M and ω to r.
Inscriptions: Obverse: None visible. Reverse: None visible. Mint Mark: KΓω.
Bibliography: DOC II.2 Justinian II pl.XXXVIII AE 34; MIB III Justinian II pl.40 Küpfer 58
Notes: Coin is overstuck on an earlier Carthagian follis, with arched M with cross above of earlier coin visible on obv.
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