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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B1597 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Justin II; Sophia; Rome Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Rome Culture: Byzantine Date made: 565-572 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.15 Weight (g): 4.59 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Haines 845. Ex. Edward Shepherd Collection, 1924. |
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Description: Obverse: Justin and Sophia, nimbate, seated on a lyre-backed double throne facing; Sophia wearing trefoil ornament and pendilia, holding a cross sceptre in l. hand, Justin wearing trefoil ornament and pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand; cross in between Justin and Sophia. Reverse: XX with cross above. Inscriptions: Obverse: D N IV S TINVS PP AV … (Our lord Justin, eternal Augustus). Reverse: None. Mint mark: ROM. Bibliography: MIB II 95b (Moneta Militaris Imitativa)
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4 Related People | |
| Rome Roman;Byzantine;Italian | |
| Justin II Byzantine c.520 October 578 | |
| Haines, Geoffrey Colton British 1899 1981-09-14 | |
| Sophia Byzantine Before 530 After 600 | |
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