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ID number:  BIRBI-B1411
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:  Half-Follis
Place made:  Izmit
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  577-578
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.45
Weight (g):  5.48
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 2937. A.H. Baldwin, 11th May 1955.
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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. Reverse: K with cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: … NVS PP A … (Our lord Justin, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANN… XIII (Year 13). Mint mark: …I.

Bibliography:  MIB II 47a

4 Related People

Nikomedia
Roman; Byzantine


Sophia
Byzantine
Before 530
After 600
Whitting_Phillip-T.jpg
Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Justin II
Byzantine
c.520
October 578
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