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ID number:  BIRBI-B0917
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:  Pentanummium
Place made:  Antioch
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  539-546
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  1.50
Weight (g):  2.59
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 1382.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Justinian facing r. wearing diadem, curiass and paludamentum. Reverse: Cross on central arm of Є, star in r. field.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: […] III […] (Our lord Justinian, emperor in perpetuity). Reverse: Є (5).

Bibliography:  DOC I. 271; MIB 1, 161

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Antioch



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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Justinian I
Byzantine
c.482
14th November 565
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