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ID number:  BIRBI-B1201
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.; Athens Hoard
Maker:  Justin II; Constantinople
Denomination:  Tremissis
Place made:  Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  565-578
Metal:  Gold
Diameter (cm):  1.50
Weight (g):  1.45
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 586. A.H. Baldwin, September 1956, "from a recent find near Athens".
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Justin facing r. wearing diadem, cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Victory holding a wreath in r. hand and a globus cruciger in l. hand, star in r. field.
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Inscriptions:  Obverse: DN I[…] NVS PP AVI (Our lord Justin, emperor in perpetuity). Reverse: VICTORIA AVCVSTORVΛ (Imperial victory). Mint mark: CONOB.

Bibliography:  DOC I. 14; MIB II 11

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Whitting, Philip David
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1903
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Justin II
Byzantine
c.520
October 578
Athens Hoard



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