Description
Collection Number:
WC 11623
Object Number:
Dates:
566 - 578
Denomination:
Nummus 20
1/2 Follis
Dimensions:
24.37mm
Weight:
6.52g
Authority:
Justin II
Mint:
Antiochia
Antioch
Languages:
Latin
Greek
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:
D N IV [...]
Obverse Inscription Languages:
Latin
Obverse Mintmarks: N/A
Obverse Inscription Comment:
N/A
Reverse Type: K, above cross, ANNO left, year right, P below K
Reverse Legend:
K
Reverse Inscription Languages:
Latin
Greek
Reverse Mintmarks:
[+]/ANNO [...] //P
Reverse Inscription Comments:
Exergue P with transversal line at the bottom
Bibliography
MIBE 2 p. 102 n. 60a, Plate 7
MIB II p. 101 n. 60a, Plate 6
DOC I p. 247 nn. 161-173, Plate LVII
BNP p. 144 nn. 23-32, Plate XXIII
BMC Byz vol. 1, pp. 94-95 nn. 214-223, Plate XII
Ratto p. 42 nn. 903-904, Plate XX
Sabatier p. 228 n. 30, Plate XXII,11
Tolstoj pp. 453-454 n. 202-210, Plate 32
Sommer p. 104 n. 5.41
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