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1/2 Siliqua - Justinian I Ravenna, ☧
| Issuer | Byzantine Empire |
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| Year | 527-565 |
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| Weight | 1 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Ravenna |
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Ravenna's mint operated under Byzantine authority only after 540, when Belisarius finally expelled the Ostrogoths following a prolonged siege — meaning any attribution of this type to the earlier years of Justinian's reign requires caution. The city had functioned as the Ostrogothic administrative capital under Theoderic, and its mint infrastructure was essentially inherited intact.
The BMC Vandal reference is not a misattribution. Early catalogers grouped certain thin silver fractions from the western reconquest mints loosely, and the cross-referencing persists in modern citations for precisely that reason.