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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Byzantine Coins| > |Justinian Dynasty| > |Justinian I| > BZ77956
Byzantine Empire, Justinian I, 4 April 527 - 14 November 565 A.D.
|Justinian| |I|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Justinian| |I,| |4| |April| |527| |-| |14| |November| |565| |A.D.|, In spring 593, Priscus, commander-in-chief in Thrace, defeated the Slavic tribes and Gepids on Byzantine territory south of the Danube. He crossed the river to fight in the uncharted swamps and forests of modern-day Wallachia. In autumn, Maurice ordered Priscus to spend the winter with his troops on the northern Danube bank, but he disobeyed the emperor's order and retreated to the port city of Odessus (Varna) on the Black Sea Coast.
BZ77956. Bronze decanummium, DOC I 266, Wroth BMC 338, Tolstoi 442, Sommer 7.107, Hahn MIB 160a, SBCV 239, Morrisson BnF - (p. 99, refs. Wroth), Ratto -, F, uneven strike, obverse off-center, corrosion, Antioch as Theoupolis (Antakya, Turkey) mint, weight 2.727g, maximum diameter 19.3mm, die axis 135o, 563 - 564 A.D.; obverse [...] - ΛOSLE (blundered nonsense), helmeted and cuirassed bust facing, helmet with plum, diadem and trefoil ornament, globus cruciger in right hand, shield with horseman ornamentation on left shoulder, cross in right field; reverse large I (10 nummi), between A/N/N/O and X/X/X/UII (year 37), cross above, THEUP (Theoupolis) in exergue; from the Butte College Foundation, ex Lindgren; SOLD










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