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ID number: BIRBI-B1466 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Justin II; Antioch Denomination: Follis Place made: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 565-566 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.55 Weight (g): 16.34 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5329. Spink, July 1966. "From South-East Turkey; from a large lot of base metal Anastasios - Herakleios". |

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Description: Obverse: Justin facing, wearing cuirass, plumed helmet with trefoil ornament and pendilia, holding in r.hand a globe surmounted with Victoria - Nike, facing Justin and crowning him with a wreath; and cross in r. of field. Reverse: M with cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … ANVS … ([Inferred] Our lord Justin, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANN… I (Year 1). Mint mark: τH…ЧP. Officina: Γ (3).
Bibliography: MIB II 54a
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