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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B1381 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: 573-574 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.95 Weight (g): 12.63 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3904. Spink, September 1960. |
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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: … N IVSTI NVS PP AV … (Our lord Justin, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO ϚIII (Year 9). Mint mark: NIKO. Officina: A (1). Bibliography: MIB II 46b Notes: Double struck on reverse. |
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4 Related People | |
| Justin II Byzantine c.520 October 578 | |
| Sophia Byzantine Before 530 After 600 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Nikomedia Roman; Byzantine | |
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