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ID number: BIRBI-B1369 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Justin II; Sophia; Nikomedia Denomination: Follis Place made: Izmit Culture: Byzantine Date made: 570-571 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.70 Weight (g): 9.24 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2718. B.A. Seaby, May 1951. |

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Description: Obverse: Justin and Sophia, nimbate, seated on a lyre-backed double throne facing; Sophia wearing a trefoil crown and pendilia, holding a cross sceptre in l. hand, Justin wearing diadem and pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand; cross in between Justin and Sophia. Reverse: M with cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D N IVSTI NΛIIIΛII _ (Our lord Justin, [inferred] eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANN… Ϛ (Year 6). Mint mark: NIKO. Officina: B (2).
Bibliography: MIB II 46b
Notes: Arab-Byzantine Imitation?
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