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ID number:  BIRBI-B1084
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Justinian I; Rome
Denomination:  Decanummium
Place made:  Rome
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  555-556
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  1.60
Weight (g):  2.90
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 1342. Spink, February 1951.
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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. Reverse: Encircling wreath.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: DN IVSTINIA NVS PP AVI (Our lord Justinian, emperor in perpetuity). Reverse: I (10). ANNO XX VIIII (Year 29).

Bibliography:  DOC I. 349; MIB I 229a

Notes:  Attributed by Bellinger and Whitting to Ravenna.

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Rome
Roman;Byzantine;Italian


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