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Byzantine

The Ashmolean Museum has a good representative collection of coins in all metals of the eastern Roman and Byzantine empire (AD 498 – 1453), and of its offshoots in Anatolia and the Balkans. It is rich in coins of the 12th to 15th century at Constantinople and Thessalonike, and of the so-called empire at Trebizond after 1204.

Byzantine coin (HCR44664)

Period

Byzantine

Person

Justinian I, Byzantine emperor, 527-565

Mint

Uncertain Byzantine mint (Byzantine)

Denom.

5 nummi

Dating

540-565

Obverse

[ ]INI ΛNVSPPΛVI, Bust right, with diadem

Reverse

V enclosed in wreath

Byzantine coin (HCR44867)

Period

Byzantine

Person

Justinian I, Byzantine emperor, 527-565

Mint

Ravenna

Denom.

1/4 siliqua

Dating

540-565

Obverse

IVƧTIN[ ]Λ [ ], Bust right, with diadem and tunic

Reverse

Christogram, star to left and to right; all enclosed in wreath

Byzantine coin (HCR46310)

Period

Byzantine

Person

Justinian I, Byzantine emperor, 527-565

Mint

Ravenna

Denom.

half siliqua

Dating

540-565

Obverse

DNIVSTI[ ] [ ]NVSΛVC, Bust right, wearing diadem and garment with broad collar

Reverse

Christogram enclosed in wreath

Byzantine coin (HCR46311)

Period

Byzantine

Person

Justinian I, Byzantine emperor, 527-565

Mint

Ravenna

Denom.

20 nummi

Dating

540-552

Obverse

DNIVSTINI ΛNVSPPNC, Bust right, with diadem, cuirass and paludamentum

Reverse

Monogram enclosed in wreath

Byzantine coin (HCR46312)

Period

Byzantine

Person

Justinian I, Byzantine emperor, 527-565

Mint

Ravenna

Denom.

20 nummi

Dating

540-552

Obverse

DNIVSTINI ΛNVSPPNC, Bust right, wearing diadem, cuirass, and paludamentum fastened at the right shoulder with round brooch

Reverse

Monogram enclosed in wreath

Byzantine coin (HCR44423)

Period

Byzantine

Person

Justinian I, Byzantine emperor, 527-565

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine) (stated mint)

Denom.

Follis

Dating

541-542

Obverse

DNIVSTINI ANVSPPAVC, Frontal bust, wearing helmet with plume, diadem, and cuirass, holds globus cruciger in right hand and shield on left shoulder; cross in field right

Reverse

ANNO XV, CON, M, cross above, A below

Byzantine coin (HCR44468)

Period

Byzantine

Person

Justinian I, Byzantine emperor, 527-565

Mint

Nicomedia (Byzantine)

Denom.

Follis

Dating

541-542

Obverse

DNIVSTINI ANVSPPAVC, Frontal bust, wearing helmet with plume, diadem, and cuirass, holds globus cruciger in right hand and shield on left shoulder; cross in field right

Reverse

NIKO, ANNO XU, M, cross above, B below

Byzantine coin (HCR44484)

Period

Byzantine

Person

Justinian I, Byzantine emperor, 527-565

Mint

Kyzikos (stated mint)

Denom.

Follis

Dating

541-542

Obverse

DNIVSTINI ANVSPPAVC, Frontal bust, wearing helmet with plume, diadem, and cuirass, holds globus cruciger in right hand and shield on left shoulder; cross in field right

Reverse

KYZ, ANNO XЧ, M, cross above, A below

Byzantine coin (HCR44490)

Period

Byzantine

Person

Justinian I, Byzantine emperor, 527-565

Mint

Kyzikos (stated mint)

Denom.

20 nummi

Dating

541-542

Obverse

DNIVSTINI ANVSPPAVC, Frontal bust, wearing helmet with plume, diadem, and cuirass, holds globus cruciger in right hand and shield on left shoulder; cross in field right

Reverse

[K]VZ, ANNO XЧ, K, cross above

Byzantine coin (HCR44424)

Period

Byzantine

Person

Justinian I, Byzantine emperor, 527-565

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine) (stated mint)

Denom.

Follis

Dating

542-543

Obverse

DNIVSTINI ANVSPPAVI, Frontal bust, wearing helmet with plume, diadem with pendilia, and cuirass, holds globus cruciger in right hand and shield at left shoulder; cross in field right

Reverse

CON, ANNO XЧI, M, cross above, Δ below

Byzantine coin (HCR44437)

Period

Byzantine

Person

Justinian I, Byzantine emperor, 527-565

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denom.

20 nummi

Dating

542-543

Obverse

DNIVSTINI ANVSPPAЧC, Frontal bust, wearing helmet with plume, diadem, and cuirass, holds globus cruciger in right hand and shield on left shoulder; cross in field right

Reverse

ANNO XЧI, K, cross above, B below

Byzantine coin (HCR44442)

Period

Byzantine

Person

Justinian I, Byzantine emperor, 527-565

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denom.

20 nummi

Dating

542-543

Obverse

DNIVSTINI ANVSPPAVC, Frontal bust, wearing helmet with plume, diadem, and cuirass, holds globus cruciger in right hand and shield on left shoulder; cross in field right

Reverse

ANNO XЧI, K, cross above, E below

Byzantine coin (HCR44445)

Period

Byzantine

Person

Justinian I, Byzantine emperor, 527-565

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine) (stated mint)

Denom.

10 nummi

Dating

542-543

Obverse

DNIVSTINI ANVSPPAVC, Bust right, with diadem, cuirass and paludamentum

Reverse

ANNO XЧI, CON, I, cross above

Byzantine coin (HCR44452)

Period

Byzantine

Person

Justinian I, Byzantine emperor, 527-565

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denom.

5 nummi

Dating

542-565

Reverse

E, B to right

Byzantine coin (HCR44453)

Period

Byzantine

Person

Justinian I, Byzantine emperor, 527-565

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denom.

5 nummi

Dating

542-565

Obverse

Bust right, with diadem

Reverse

Byzantine coin (HCR44454)

Period

Byzantine

Person

Justinian I, Byzantine emperor, 527-565

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denom.

5 nummi

Dating

542-565

Obverse

Bust right, with diadem

Reverse

E, B to right

Byzantine coin (HCR44455)

Period

Byzantine

Person

Justinian I, Byzantine emperor, 527-565

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denom.

5 nummi

Dating

542-565

Obverse

[DNIV]STINI ANV[S]PPAV[C], Bust right, with diadem

Reverse

E, cross to right

Byzantine coin (HCR44475)

Period

Byzantine

Person

Justinian I, Byzantine emperor, 527-565

Mint

Nicomedia (Byzantine) (stated mint)

Denom.

Follis

Dating

542-543

Obverse

DNIVS TINI ANVSPPAVC, Frontal bust, wearing helmet with plume, diadem, and cuirass, holds globus cruciger in right hand and shield on left shoulder; cross in field right

Reverse

+NIKO, ANNO XUI, M, cross above, B below

Byzantine coin (HCR44486)

Period

Byzantine

Person

Justinian I, Byzantine emperor, 527-565

Mint

Kyzikos

Denom.

Follis

Dating

542-543

Obverse

DNIVSTINI ANVSP[PA]VC, Frontal bust, wearing helmet with plume, diadem, and cuirass, holds globus cruciger in right hand and shield on left shoulder; cross in field right

Reverse

KYZ, ANNO XG, M, cross above, B below

Byzantine coin (HCR44601)

Period

Byzantine

Person

Justinian I, Byzantine emperor, 527-565

Mint

Rome

Denom.

half siliqua

Dating

542-546

Obverse

DNIV[ ] ANVSPΓΛIC, Bust right, wearing diadem and garment with broad collar

Reverse

CN with cross above, all enclosed in laurel wreath