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ID number: BIRBI-B0930 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Justinian I; Alexandria Denomination: Dodecanummium Place made: Lower Egypt: Alexandria Culture: Byzantine Date made: 527-565 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 1.80 Weight (g): 5.08 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 1590. A.H. Baldwin, September 1950. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Justinian facing r. wearing diadem, curiass and paludamentum. Reverse: Cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: DN IVSIN ANVS PP (Our lord Justinian, emperor in perpetuity). Reverse: IB (12). Mint mark: AΛЄΞ.
Bibliography: DOC I. 274; MIB 1, 165
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