FREE: 584 A.D. Justinian ++ANCIENT ROMAN COIN++ RARE!

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SPECS:
Emperor: Justinian -584-585 A.D.
Metal: Bronze
Size: About the size of a modern US Quarter!
Denomination: Half Folis
Mint: Thessalonica

Obverse: Helmeted and cuirassed bust facing, helment with plume, globus cruciger in right, shield on left shoulder

Reverse: large K (20 nummi) between A/N/N/O and UI/II (regnal year 8), cross above, TES (Thessalonica) below.

HISTORY LESSON:

"Cassander of Macedonia founded Thessalonica in 315 B.C. He named it after his wife Thessalonike, a half-sister of Alexander the Great. Thessalonica became the capital of Roman Macedonia in 168 B.C. and was later the administrative center for all of Greece. Its location at the nexus of both the East-West and North-South trade routes was ideal. In 1423, Andronicus ceded the city to Venice to protect it from the besieging Ottomans. The Venetians held Thessaloniki until it was taken by the Sultan Murad II on 29 March 1430." *1

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