Online Collections at UoB - Objects
Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-B1462 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: Half-Follis Place made: Kyzikos Culture: Byzantine Date made: 574-576 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.25 Weight (g): 7.15 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5335. Spink, July 1966. "From South-East Turkey with a large base metal lot of Anastasios to Herakleios". |
|
Description: Obverse: Justin and Sophia, nimbate, seated on a lyre-backed double throne facing; Sophia wearing diadem 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: K with cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D N IVSTI … (Our lord Justin, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO X… (Year 10, or 11). Mint mark: KYZ.
Bibliography: MIB II 51b
|