20 Nummi - Justinian I Carthage, PΛ, Bust Facing

Carthage's mint operated under direct imperial oversight following Justinian's reconquest of North Africa from the Vandals in 533 — a campaign that took General Belisarius less than two years to complete. The regnal year PΛ (year 31 of Justinian's reign) places this piece in the period when the African provinces were still being administratively consolidated, with the Carthage mint producing notably heavier flans than its Constantinople counterpart, a regional idiosyncrasy that persisted through much of the sixth century.