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10 Nummi - Justinian I Carthage, CAR

Issuer Byzantine Empire
Year 539-541
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Composition Copper
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Obverse description Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Justinian I facing right, rendered in the late antique Byzantine style characteristic of the Carthage mint. The imperial effigy is depicted with a pearl diadem and articulated shoulder-guard of the cuirass visible below the paludamentum. The encircling Latin legend runs along the coin's border, partially obscured by the irregular flan but legible in sequence. A dotted border frames the entire design. The portrait, while somewhat provincial in execution relative to Constantinople issues, retains the essential iconographic conventions of imperial representation.
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Obverse lettering D N IVSTINIANVS P P AVG
(Translation: D(-ominus) N(-oster) IVSTINIANVS P(-er-)P(-etuus) AVG(-ustus) `Our Lord Justinian, Perpetual Emperor`)
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