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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".
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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

4 Related People

Kyzikos
Roman; Byzantine


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