Description
Collection Number: WC 11048
Object Number:
Dates: 574 - 575
Dimensions: 33.18mm
Weight: 13.14g
Authority: Justin II
Obverse Type: Blundered legend; Imperial couple enthroned, he holds globus cruciger, she holds cross sceptre, heads crown and nimbate
DOC: Justin and Sophia nimbate, facing on double throne. They hold between them globe surmounted by a cross and in their hands long sceptres. Border of dots
Obverse Legend:
[] VNT(U)t []ΛN[]
Obverse Mintmarks:
N/A
Obverse Inscription Comment: N/A
Reverse Type: M, above cross, A/N/N/O left, year right, below M officina mark, in exergue THEЧP'
Reverse Legend:
M
Reverse Mintmarks:
+/ANNO X*/Γ //THEЧP'
Reverse Inscription Comments: N/A
Bibliography
MIBE 2 p. 101 n. 56b, Plate 7
MIB II p. 100 n. 56b, Plate 6 (year 9)
DOC I pp. 244-245 n. 157, Plate LVI
cf. BNP pp. 142-143 nn. 1-21, Plate XXIII
BMC Byz vol. 1, p. 93 n. 209, Plate --
Ratto --
cf. Sabatier p. 227 n. 18, Plate XXII,1
Tolstoj p. 446 n. 164, Plate --
Sommer p. 103 n. 5.39
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