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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Byzantine Coins| > |Justinian Dynasty| > |Justin I| > BZ73040
Byzantine Empire, Justin I and Justinian I, April - 1 August 527 A.D.
|Justin| |I|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Justin| |I| |and| |Justinian| |I,| |April| |-| |1| |August| |527| |A.D.|, This tiny bronze from Antioch is the last coin type to depict the Tyche of Antioch by Eutychides and, indeed, it is the last ancient coin type to depict any classical deity. The sculpture, which first appeared on coins of Antioch in the second century B.C., was made in the late 4th Century B.C. by the Greek sculptor Eutychides of Sicyon for the then newly founded city of Antioch. The sculpture was imitated by many Asiatic cities. There is a small copy in the Vatican.
BZ73040. Bronze pentanummium, DOC I 17, Hahn MIB 13, Wroth BMC 10 - 11, SBCV 133, Morrisson BnF -, Ratto -, F, nice glossy green patina with earthen highlighting, Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) mint, weight 1.716g, maximum diameter 12.5mm, die axis 180o, Apr - 1 Aug 527 A.D.; obverse D N D N IVSTINVS ET IVSTINIANVS P P AVG (or similar), diademed, draped and cuirassed busts of Justin and Justinian facing; reverse Tyche of Antioch seated left, reversed E left, all within a distyle shrine; very rare; SOLD




  






REFERENCES|

Huvelin, H. "L'atelier d'Antioche sous Claude II" in NAC XIX (1990), pp. 251-271.
McAlee, R. The Coins of Roman Antioch. (Lancaster, PA, 2007).
Prieur, M. & K. Prieur. The Syro-Phoenician Tetradrachms and their fractions from 57 BC to AD 258. (Lancaster, PA, 2000).
Van Heesch, J. "The last civic coinages and the religious policy of Maximinus Daza (AD 312)" in Numismatic Chronicle 1993, pp. 65 - 75, pl. 11.

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