10 Nummi - Justin II Cyzicus

Justin II took the throne on November 14, 565, the day of Justinian's death, and the earliest issues of his reign — including this Cyzicus striking — were produced before the new administration had fully standardized its mint outputs. The Cyzicus mint, situated on the Propontis in northwestern Asia Minor, was one of the more active provincial operations under the Byzantines but is notably underrepresented in numismatic literature compared to Constantinople.

The 565–566 dating places this piece in the first regnal year, a classification largely derived from the absence of the consular notation Justin adopted in subsequent issues.