Co 1261 (Late Roman bronze coin of Justinian I from Antioch) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Coin

Comment

JLR: This type was an Antiochene issue under both Justin I (e.g., Co 357, Co 374) and Justinian I, but the scale of the design and the obverse portrait of this coin favor its identification with Justininian.

Logical part of

Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins

Typological identification

Coin

Comparanda

DOCI Justinian I 205, p. 135

Contributor Notes

2012 (November 23): R. Weir studied, with reference to KenchreaiIII.

Contributor Notes

2024: JLR described and identified coin.

Description

Flan is drastically undersized so that it displays less than half of the type, and even so the reverse is struck too far to right.

Preservation description

Wear: P/F. Extensive, moderate chipping around edge; extensive, moderate pitting and minor cracking.

Published as

KenchreaiIII, p. 61, no. 965 (R. Hohlfelder identified as “Uncertain, Late Roman/Early Byzantine“)

Axis (1-12)

9

Has denomination

AE4

Has denomination

Pentanummion

Numismatic Authority

Justinian I (527-565)

Numismatic Diameter (mm)

6.5

Numismatic Mint

Antioch on the Orontes

Numismatic Weight (g)

0.98

Obverse Description

Pearl-diademed, [draped, and cuirassed] bust of emperor to right

Obverse Inscription

Inscription is off flan

Reverse Description

[Turreted Tyche sitting to left inside] distyle vaulted shrine; within wreath

Reverse Inscription

To left (along right preserved margin), retrograde Ⲉ

Belongs to Historical Period

Late Roman (Historical Period)

Material

Bronze (Material)

Obverse Photograph

Reverse Photograph