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ID number: BIRBI-MH0122 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Mardin Hoard Maker: Justinian I Denomination: Half-follis Culture: Byzantine; Turkman Date made: 527-565 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.55 Weight (g): 7.50 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 8035, January 1976. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Justinian I in profile r. with cuirass, paludamentum and diadem. Reverse: None.
Inscriptions: Obverse: …ANV… (…Justinian) Reverse: K (Twenty)
Bibliography: MIB.1 90(?)
Notes: Countermark 18b (lillah?) on obverse at 225 degrees; Lowick, Bendall and Whitting 'The Mardin Hoard' pp.41-42
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