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LOT 3235
Justin II and Sophia AE 20 Nummi or Half Follis. AD 565-578.
Uncertain military mint. Dated RY 4 (AD 568-569). [...]TINVS P P AVI, Justin, holding globus cruciger, and Sophia, holding cruciform sceptre, both nimbate, enthroned facing / Large K; cross above, ANNO Δ (date) across field, TЄS below. MIBE 94; DOC 65 (Thessalonica); SB 366 (Thessalonica). Very Fine.(7.06gr, 21mm, 7h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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