Online Collections at UoB - Objects
Go to the Advanced Search
Viewing Record 1 of 1 


Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B1552
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Justin II; Sophia; Carthage
Denomination:  Half-Follis
Place made:  Carthage
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  572-573
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.30
Weight (g):  10.52
Axis (degrees):  0.00
Provenance:  Whitting 5904. R.M. Cunningham, February 1951.
BIRBI-B1552.jpg

Description:  Obverse: Busts of Justin and Sophia facing; Sophia wearing crown with pendilia, Justin wearing plumed helmet with pendilia, and cuirass; cross between them. Reverse: K with cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: D N IVST INO … (To our lords Justin and Sophia); in exergue: V… (Life). Reverse: ANNO VIII (Year 8). Mint mark: K… Control mark: S (6).

Bibliography:  MIB II 76

4 Related People

Sophia
Byzantine
Before 530
After 600
Whitting_Phillip-T.jpg
Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Carthage
Roman;Byzantine


Justin II
Byzantine
c.520
October 578
Viewing Record 1 of 1