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Byzantine Empire, Justinian I, 4 April 527 - 14 November 565 A.D.
In 535 - 536 A.D., the world experienced the most severe and protracted short-term cooling episode in the last 2,000 years. The cooling is thought to have been caused by an extensive atmospheric dust veil, possibly resulting from a large volcanic eruption in the tropics, or debris from space impacting the Earth. Its effects were widespread, causing unseasonable weather, crop failures, and famines worldwide. The Byzantine historian Procopius recorded of 536, in his report on the wars with the Vandals, "during this year a most dread portent took place. For the sun gave forth its light without brightness...and it seemed exceedingly like the sun in eclipse, for the beams it shed were not clear." Crop failures were recorded in some areas until 539.BZ00363. Bronze half follis, DOC I 33b, Morrisson BnF I 4/Cp/AE/15, Sommer 4.24, Hahn MIB I 90, Berk 130, SBCV 164, Wroth BMC -, Tolstoi -, Ratto -, aVF, 3rd officina, Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) mint, weight 5.80g, maximum diameter 21.6mm, 527 - 539 A.D.; obverse D N IVSTINIANVS P P AVG, diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right; reverse large K (20 nummi) between cross and Γ(3rd officina), star above and star below; SOLD
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