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ID number: BIRBI-B0900 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: Decanummium Place made: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 564-565 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.10 Weight (g): 4.13 Axis (degrees): 135.00 Provenance: Whitting 3151. Glendining March 1957. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Justinian facing wearing plumed helmet with diadem, cuirass and holding a shield depicting a cavalryman on l. arm; cross above l. shoulder. Reverse: I surmounted by cross.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D N IVSTINI ANYS PP AVS (Our lord Justinian, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO XXXʕII (Year 38). Mint mark: THEUP'.
Bibliography: MIB I 160b
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