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ID number: BIRBI-B0849 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: Half-follis Place made: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 532-536 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.60 Weight (g): 7.76 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 0745. R. M. Cunningham, February 1951. |

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Description: Obverse: Justinian enthroned facing, wearing diadem and chlamys, holding sceptre in r. hand and globus cruciger in l. hand. Reverse: Cross in l. field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: DN IVSTINI ANVS PP AV (Our lord Justinian, emperor in perpetuity). Reverse: K (20). Mint mark: THЄЧOP. Control mark: Γ(3).
Bibliography: DOC I. 208; MIB I, 135
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