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ID number: BIRBI-B0941 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Justinian I; Carthage Denomination: Solidus Place made: Carthage Culture: Byzantine Date made: 547-548 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.15 Weight (g): 4.30 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 934. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Justinian facing wearing plumed helmet with diadem with pendilia, cuirass and holding a shield depicting a cavalryman on l. arm and holding a globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: Victoria standing facing holding cross-topped staff in r. hand and globus cruciger in l. star in r. of field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D N IVSTINI ANVS PP AVC (Our lord Justinian, eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTORI A AVCCC (Imperial victory). Mint mark: CONOB. Indiction year: IA (11).
Bibliography: MIB I 25
Notes: Attempted mounting twice to left and twice to right.
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