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ID number: BIRBI-B4409 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Justinian II; Syracuse Denomination: Tremissis Place made: Sicily: Syracuse Culture: Byzantine Date made: 685-695 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 1.30 Weight (g): 1.39 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0855. A. H. Baldwin October 1959. |

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Description: Obverse: profile of Justinian II, bearded, wearing chlamys and diadem. Reverse: cross-potent.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ...CЧq… Reverse: VICTOR… AUYЧ K (Imperial Victory) Mink Mark: CONOB.
Bibliography: DOC II.2 pl.XXXVIII AV50b.1; MIB III Justinian II pl.38 Gold 27.1.
Notes: Attributed to Syracuse based on similarity in iconography and presence of K control mark on obv. (see MIB III Justinian II pl.38 Gold 24).
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