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ID number: BIRBI-B0949 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: Heavy Quarter-Siliqua Place made: Carthage Culture: Byzantine Date made: 533-552 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 1.10 Weight (g): 0.53 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 2930. B.A. Seaby, 11th February 1955. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Justinian facing r. wearing diadem, curiass and paludamentum. Reverse: Wreath encircling cross.
Inscriptions: Obverse: DN IVSTIN […] (Our lord Justinian, emperor in perpetuity). Reverse: V O M T (Vows [from the emperor's accession] many [for the future] (corruption of numbers)).
Bibliography: DOC I. 282; MIB 1, 52
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