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Anonymous Issue, AR Third-Siliqua, c.580-600, Constantinople
(No legend)
Helmeted, draped, cuirassed bust of Constantinopolis facing, head right
(No legend)
Large TX monogram
13mm x 14mm, 1.17g
Bendall, Anonymous 12 (fig. 25); cf. MIB 3, 69 (Constantine IV); Tolstoi
pl. 28, 620
Note: Although traditionally dated "after 330 AD," S. Bendall, in
“Anonymous Silver Coinage of the 4th to 6th Centuries AD”, RN 2002,
provides a numismatic and historiographic basis for dating these anonymous
third-siliquae to the decades after 530 AD.
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