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ID number: BIRBI-B1340 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Justin II; Sophia; Thessalonica Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 574-575 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.25 Weight (g): 5.67 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2414. A.H. Baldwin, 20th march 1954. |

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Description: Obverse: Justin and Sophia, nimbate, seated on a lyre-backed double throne facing; Sophia with pendilia, holding a cross sceptre in l. hand, Justin holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: K.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D N … NVS PP AVC (Our lord Justin, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO XΔ (Year 10Δ); ΘC [cross above] (Theos - God). Mint mark: TЄS.
Bibliography: MIB II 70 (var)
Notes: The Δ on the reverse with the year appears to be deliberatly engraved in the die, and is not an artefact of an overstrike or an engraving in the coin; this specific feature is neither recorded by MIB or by DOC.
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