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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2255420, member: 44316&quot;]Here is an educational website of mine on the unusual copper Byzantine coins of Anastasius, Justin, and Justinian that have a cross above the profile head. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/ByzCross/Cross-above-head.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/ByzCross/Cross-above-head.html" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/ByzCross/Cross-above-head.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one very nice example of Justin (AD 518-527) from the Nicomedia mint (NIKM):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]446895[/ATTACH] </p><p>Note the bold cross above his head. Few Byzantine coins have this cross.</p><p>Reference: Sear 84. 30 mm. 16.81 grams.</p><p><br /></p><p>This collection was assembled over the last 50 years by a friend of mine who wondered why a small fraction of Byzantine right-facing profile busts had a cross above the head (most coins, even of those types, do not). Unfortunately the answer remains unknown, but I put the data he assembled on the web for all to ponder. I hope it has all the data about the coins that scholars might need if they investigated the question. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now that the scholarly information is available, he is interested in selling the collection, and I agreed to do it for him.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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