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JUSTINIAN I AD 527-65. Cheap half-follis with full inscription. Constantinople
JUSTINIAN I AD 527-65. Cheap half-follis with full inscription. Constantinople

JUSTINIAN I AD 527-65. Cheap half-follis with full inscription. Constantinople

$ 7.91

Availability: 50 in stock
  • Cleaned/Uncleaned: Cleaned
  • Grade: Ungraded
  • Condition: As you can see, the coin is rather worn and the portrait is pretty rudimentary. But the full obverse inscription is there.
  • Year: 527-65
  • Denomination: Half follis

    Description

    JUSTINIAN I, AD 527-65. Half-follis of Constantinople. As you see, the profile portrait is pretty rudimentary, but the full inscription is there, if you know what you are looking at: DNIVSTINIANVSPPAUG. Dominus Noster (Our Lord) Justinianus Perpetual Augustus.
    The reverse has a large K (the denomination mark = 20), a cross, a star under the K, and an E to the right. This last is the workshop number. Epsilon workshop, i.e 5th. Constantinople. Probably quite early in the reign because after year 12 Justinian switched to frontal portraits and actual dates on his coins.
    This is a nice cheap example of a Byzantine coin. A good way to start a collection.
    Always happy to combine shipping on multiple wins. This will be mailed between two slabs of cardboard as a first-class package. It is too thick to put between thinner cardboard and inside an envelope as a "letter," which you can get away with for smaller coins. Therefore the foreign postage charges are a rough guess. I will refund any excess.