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10 Nummi - Justinian I X, Rome
| Issuer | Byzantine Empire |
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| Year | 539-565 |
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| Value | Decanummium = 10 Nummi (1⁄720) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Rome returned to Byzantine hands in 536 after Belisarius took the city from the Ostrogoths, but the mint there operated fitfully — interrupted twice by Gothic recapture, in 546 and again briefly in 549-550. Coins struck at Rome during Justinian's reign are consequently far less uniform than those from Constantinople or Thessalonica, with the Roman workshop producing in smaller volume across a prolonged and militarily disrupted occupation.
MIB I#244 places this type firmly within the Roman mint's output, distinguished from eastern products by subtle fabric differences rather than explicit mint marks.