10 Nummi - Justinian I Antioch, τHЧΠ∕, Bust Facing

Antioch's mint — operating under the Greek name Theopolis ("City of God") after Justinian renamed it following the catastrophic earthquake of 526 — used that theophoric mint signature through much of the sixth century. The city had been largely rebuilt under imperial patronage, and its mint output during these middle decades of Justinian's reign reflects steady, if unspectacular, production. The 10 Nummi fraction served small transactions at a time when the follis and its fractions were the backbone of daily exchange in the eastern provinces.