| The Lombards, Lombardic Italy. Anonymous (7th-8th century AD). Imitative AR 1/8 Siliqua (=1 carat) ( 11.5 mm, 0.18 g.). Abstract rendering of a crude bust, two crosses pattée below, within raised dotted border. R/ Cross potent above globe between two crosses pattée, within raised dotted border. RRR. Uique and unpublished in the standard references. For iconographic prototypes: cf. MIBE II, Tiberius II, Ravenna 22 and Maurice, Ravenna 64; Ranieri 447-9 and 483; Bernareggi, ‘problem di Numismatica: le cosidette “silique di Pertarito”’, AIIN 12-14, 1965 pp, 119-130, pls 22-23, 1-16; MEC I, 328-331. For denomination cf. M. O’Hara and I. Vecchi, ‘A find of Byzantine silver from the mint of Rome for the period AD 641-752, RSN 64, 1985, pp. 105-140, 1-20. Good VF The denomination of 1/8 of a siliqua, or I carat weight, was the smallest silver denomination employed in Byzantine Rome and Ravenna, cf. MIB III: Justinian I 79, Heraclius 152-157, Constans II MIB III, Contantine IV MIB 73-76, Justinian II first reign MIB III 43, Leontius I MIB 30-31 and seems to have ended with Tiberius III MIB 71-72, after which it was replacement by its copper equivalent of 30 Nummis and Rome, cf. Justinian II first reign MIB 75-77. |
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