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ID number:  BIRBI-B1323
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Justin II; Thessalonica
Denomination:  Half-Follis
Place made:  Thessaloniki
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  565-566
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.40
Weight (g):  7.32
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 1972.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Justin facing, wearing plumed helmet with trefoil ornament. Reverse: K with cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: … NVS PP … (Our lord Justin, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO I (Year 1). Mint mark: TЄS.

Bibliography:  MIB II 68b

3 Related People

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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Justin II
Byzantine
c.520
October 578
Thessalonica



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