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ID number:  BIRBI-B0987
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:  Decanummium
Place made:  Carthage
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  533-539
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  1.80
Weight (g):  3.66
Axis (degrees):  90.00
Provenance:  Whitting 3242. Glendining, August 1958.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Justinian facing r. wearing diadem, curiass and paludamentum. Reverse: Cross above, star in l. field and r. field.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: DN IVSTINI[…] (Our lord Justinian, emperor in perpetuity). Reverse: I (10). Mint mark: […].

Bibliography:  DOC I. 289; MIB 1, 188b

3 Related People

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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Carthage
Roman;Byzantine


Justinian I
Byzantine
c.482
14th November 565
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