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LOT 3088
Justinian I AE 40 Nummi or Follis. Struck circa AD 529-533. Theoupolis (Antioch) mint. 1st officina. Class II.
D N IVSTINI-ANVS P P AVG, Justinian seated facing on throne, wearing crown with pendilia and holding sceptre and globus cruciger / Large M; above, cross; to left, eight-rayed star; to right, crescent outward; A below, + THEUP in exergue. DOC 206a; MIBE 130; SB 214. Near Very Fine.(16.65gr, 32mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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