Follis (Coin) Portraying the Emperor Justinian I
538-539
- Medium
- Bronze
- Classification
- Coin
- Dimensions
- Diam.: 3.9 cm (1 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- Istanbul
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Credit line
- Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The front (obverse) of this coin portrays the emperor Justinian I, facing forward and holding a globe in his right hand; there is a cross above his left shoulder.
The back (reverse) depicts the letter M with a cross above.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
