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LOT 3223
Justinian I AE 40 Nummi or Follis. AD 527-565.
Nicomedia mint. Dated RY 31 (AD 557/8). 1st officina. D N IVSTINI-ANVS P P AVG, helmetted and cuirassed bust facing, holding globus cruciger with right hand and shield decorated with soldier on horseback motif with left, cross to right / Large M, ANNO XXXI (date) across field, cross above, A below; NIKO in exergue. DOC 137a; SB 201. Very Fine.(15.16gr, 32mm, 7h.).
Provenance
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
