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ID number: BIRBI-B1127 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Justinian I; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 527-537 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 3.00 Weight (g): 12.51 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5894. Dorothy Wood, 1963, from Mersin. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Justinian facing r. wearing diadem, cuirass and paludamentum, cross or chrismon in r. field. Reverse: Cross above, cross in l. field and r. field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: DN IVSTINI[…] IN AVC (Our lord Justinian, emperor in perpetuity). Reverse: M (40). Mint mark: CON.
Bibliography: DOC I. 29; MIB I 87
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