http://www.silk-road.com/newsletter/vol3num2/4_ying.php This is pretty interesting actually Solidi in China and Monetary Culture along the Silk Road [h=3]Lin Ying [/h] Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China I Fig. 1. Solidus of Justin II unearthed at Dizhangwan. n the summer of 1953, a group of archaeologists from the Shanxi Institute of Historical Relics and Archaeology arrived at Dizangwan, a small village near Xianyang city, where they excavated the tomb of Dugu Luo (534-599), a high official in the Sui period (581-618). The yellow soil yielded a small gold coin [Fig. 1], quite different in appearance from ancient Chinese coins [Fig. 2]. When it was sent to Beijing the following year to display in a national exhibition of newly discovered artifacts, the noted archaeologist and historian Xia Nai identified it as a solidus of Byzantine emperor Justin II (565- 578).
