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40 Nummi - Justinian I Antioch, ΘYΠOΛS, Bust Right
| Issuer | Byzantine Empire |
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| Year | 529-538 |
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| Currency | First Solidus Nomisma (498-720) |
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| Obverse description | Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Justinian I facing right, rendered in the late antique imperial style characteristic of early Byzantine coinage. The diadem is adorned with a row of pearls, and the paludamentum is visible over the cuirass, fastened at the shoulder. The emperor's features are rendered with stylized authority, the eye large and frontal in the Byzantine manner despite the profile orientation. The imperial legend encircles the bust, running from left to right along the coin's periphery. The flan is irregular, as is typical of hammered Byzantine folles struck at provincial mints during this period. |
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| Mintage | ND (529-538) ΘYΠOΛS A - 1st officina - ND (529-538) ΘYΠOΛS B - 2nd officina - ND (529-538) ΘYΠOΛS Γ - 3rd officina - ND (529-538) ΘYΠOΛS Δ - 4th officina - ND (529-538) ΘYΠOΛS Є - 5th officina - |
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Antioch's mint was among the most productive in the eastern empire during Justinian's early reign, but its output was interrupted permanently in 540 when the Sasanian king Khosrow I sacked and largely destroyed the city. Coins struck there before that catastrophe carry mint marks referencing a metropolis that would never fully recover as a minting center.
The ΘYΠOΛC mark — a contraction identifying Theopolis, the name Justinian had formally assigned to Antioch following a devastating earthquake in 528 — dates this piece to after that renaming but before Khosrow's sack.