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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Byzantine Coins| > |Justinian Dynasty| > |Justin II| > BZ69548
Byzantine Empire, Justin II, 15 November 565 - 5 October 578 A.D.
|Justin| |II|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Justin| |II,| |15| |November| |565| |-| |5| |October| |578| |A.D.|, Most references list this type with ΘC above for some other years but only φC above for years 12 and 13. Wroth notes that the meaning of these letters is uncertain but ΘC may abbreviate ΘΕOΣ (God) and φC perhaps abbreviates ΦΩΣ (light).
BZ69548. Bronze half-follis, Jerash 438, Hahn MIB II 70e (refs Jerash), DOC I 84.1 var. (φ vice Θ), Wroth BMC 122 var. (same), Sommer 5.22 var. (same), SBCV 366, VF, green patina, obverse off-center, Thessalonica (Salonika, Greece) mint, weight 6.511g, maximum diameter 24.3mm, die axis 180o, c. 576 - 577 A.D.; obverse D N IVSTI-NVS P P, Justin (left) and Sophia seated facing on double throne, both nimbate, he holds globus cruciger, she a cruciform scepter; reverse large K (20 nummi) between ANNO and XII (year 12), + over ΘC above, TES below; from the Butte College Foundation, ex Lindgren; very rare variety; SOLD










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