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ID number:  BIRBI-B1444
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Justin II; Sophia; Kyzikos
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Kyzikos
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  574-575
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  3.15
Weight (g):  12.87
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 3997. Spink, February 1962.
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Description:  Obverse: Justin and Sophia, nimbate, seated on a lyre-backed double throne facing; Sophia wearing trefoil crown and pendilia, holding a cross sceptre in l. hand, Justin wearing trefoil crown and pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand; cross in between Justin and Sophia. Reverse: M with cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: D N IVSTI NVS PP A (Our lord Justin, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO X (Year 10). Mint mark: KYZ. Officina: B (2).

Bibliography:  MIB II 50b

4 Related People

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


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