Description
Collection Number: WC 5592
Object Number:
Dates: 530 - 539
Denomination: Solidus
Dimensions: 21.00mm
Weight: 4.41g
Authority: Athalaric
Mint: Ravenna
Languages: Latin
Obverse Type: DN IVSTINI-ANVS PF AVC; Frontal bust with head turned 3/4 right, helmet without trifolium (the diadem ties "flying"), cuirass, holding spear with lance top and shield
Obverse Legend:
DN IVSTINI-ANVS PF ꜸC
Obverse Inscription Languages: Latin
Obverse Mintmarks:
N/A
Obverse Inscription Comment: AV ligatured
Reverse Type: VICTORI-AAVCCoff; Victoria with long cross standing left, six (sometimes eight) rayed star left, in exergue COMOB, at each end of the exergual line two dots
Reverse Legend:
VICTORI-AAVCC
Reverse Inscription Languages: Latin
Reverse Mintmarks:
/- //COMOB
Reverse Inscription Comments: N/A
Bibliography
cf. Metlich 2004, p. 95 n. 36b, Plate V
Baldi 2014, 125
cf. MEC p. 432 n. 122, Plate 8
MIB I p. 129 n. 28, Plate 37
BMC Vand p. 61 nn. 1-5, 7-8, Plate VII,16-17
Ratto pp. 25, 135 nn. 464, 2473-2474, Plate XII, LXII
Sabatier --
Tolstoj p. 378 n. 521, Plate 26
Arslan 1978, p. 43 n. 104 (Rome)
Demo p. 92 n. 139 (Athalaric), p. 98 n. 196 (Theodahad) - both referring to MIB 28