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.
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.