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ID number: BIRBI-B0866 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Maker: Justinian I; Antioch Denomination: Half-follis Place made: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 554-555 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.70 Weight (g): 10.59 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Not clear which collection this is from, but at some point presented to A.H. Baldwin by R.D. Barnett, October 1946, obtained in Middle East. B.124b. |

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Description: Obverse: Facing bust of Justinian, wearing cuirass and plumed helmet with pendilia, in r. hand globus cruciger, on l. shoulder shield with horseman device, cross in r. of field. Reverse: Cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: DN IVS[…] (Our lord Justinian, emperor in perpetuity). Reverse: K (20). ANNO XXGII (Year 28). Mint mark: OΠ.
Bibliography: DOC I. 244 (Var.); MIB I, 154a
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