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10 Nummi - Justinian I VICTORIA AG, Carthage
| Issuer | Byzantine Empire |
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| Year | 527-565 |
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| Currency | First Solidus Nomisma (498-720) |
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| Obverse lettering | D N IVSTINIANVS P P AG (Translation: D(-ominus) N(-oster) IVSTINIANVS P(-er-)P(-etuus) A(-u-)G(-ustus) `Our Lord Justinian, Perpetual Emperor`) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Carthage returned to imperial mint production only after Belisarius retook the city from the Vandals in 533, ending nearly a century of Germanic control. The North African mint operated under conditions quite different from Constantinople — output was irregular, fabric quality inconsistent, and the series shows pronounced variation in module and centering that reflects a workshop still finding its footing after decades of dormancy.
The VICTORIA AVG reverse type used at Carthage had already fallen out of fashion at eastern mints by this point, making it a deliberate provincial throwback rather than a metropolitan issue.