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Enigmatic "½-Miliaresion" or Siliqua of Justinian I, Constantinople (or Sicily).

Justinian I (527-565), silver "½-Miliaresion" or Siliqua, Constantinople (or Sicily), D N IVSTINIANVS PP AVI, bust right, rev. CCORIARO-MANORVL [GLORIA ROMANORUM], Justinian standing facing, mint or reverse exergual legend blundered, 1.92g, 6h (cf SB 155). NGC Ch VF 3/5 2/5 scratches, edge bend.

NGC Certification 8221136-002

The coin is an obverse die match for a ½-Miliaresion or Siliqua sold at Roma Auction XVI, 26 September 2018. That coin was stated to be only the second known of a potentially new type, a ½-Miliaresion, corresponding to 1/24 of a solidus. The reference given for that coin was A. U. Sommer (Nueue Münzen des Byzantinischen Reiches I', in NBB 10/16, pp. 401-2), an article which discusses the possibility that the coin was a new issue of Sicily, struck after AD 541 during the time of Belisarius's reconquest of the island. The coin sold by Roma had a clear reverse exergual legend, SILOI, from which that cataloguer interprets a new silver denomination equating to 1/24 of a solidus. As the present coin is an obverse die match it is potentially therefore the third known example of this type.

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