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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B1327 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: 567-568 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.35 Weight (g): 6.54 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0150. A.H. Baldwin, October 1950. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Justin facing, wearing cuirass, and plumed helmet with trefoil ornament and pendilia, and shield on l. arm. Reverse: K with cross above. Inscriptions: Obverse: … NVS PP AVC (Our lord Justin, eternal Augustus). Reverse: …N… III (Year 3). Mint mark: TCS. Obverse Inscription of undertype: D (retrograde)INVSTINΛ. Bibliography: MIB II 68b Notes: Overstruck on an eight or sixteen nummi piece of Justinian I, obverse on reverse; the inscription from the obverse of the undertype is visible on the reverse of the coin, and the A from the reverse of the undertype is visible on the obverse of the coin. |
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| Thessalonica | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Justin II Byzantine c.520 October 578 | |
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