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ID number: BIRBI-B0770 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Justinian I; Antioch Denomination: Follis Place made: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 531-536 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 3.35 Weight (g): 16.85 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1258. |
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Description: Obverse: Justinian enthroned with feet on platform, facing, wearing trefoil crown with pendilia, holding sceptre in r. hand and globus cruciger in l. hand. Reverse: M surmounted by cross with a star to l. and to r.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D N IVSTINI ANVS PP AVS (Our lord Justinian, eternal Augustus). Reverse: None. Mint mark: + THEЧP.
Bibliography: MIB I 129 var.
Notes: Variant to MIB 129 because no officina mark.
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