Cultural object · Europeana
IMAGE- Medium
- COIN
- Year
- 542
- Place
- United Kingdom; Suffolk; Mid Suffolk
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Provider
- The Portable Antiquities Scheme
- Collection
- 2048087_Ag_EU_AthenaPlus_CollectionsTrust
A copper-alloy Byzantine pentanummium/five nummi piece of emperor Justinian I (527-565). The obverse is now blank but would originally have had a bust of an Emperor to the right and an inscription. On the reverse is the Greek letter epsilon or number 5, referring to the denomination of 5 nummi. There is a cross in the right of the field. It was struck between 542-565 in Constantinople. (Ref; MIBE 103b). EMC 2005.0026
archaeology - BYZANTINE
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