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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herberto, post: 2598908, member: 74222&quot;]As I have understood it so far it was a medallion that was stolen from a French museum in 1831, and apparently is gone for ever. - I just want to know how much gram was it? A byzantine Solidus is normal 4,5 gram but that one was a very special one.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have seen some of gold and some of bronze (replicas or electrotype):&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]566946[/ATTACH] </p><p>&quot;Drawing of a lost multiple solidi of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justinian_I" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justinian_I" rel="nofollow">Justinian I</a> figuring a lost equestrian statue of Justinian in Constantinople, struck in celebration of the victory in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandalic_War" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandalic_War" rel="nofollow">Vandalic War</a>. Photograph from Charles Diehl, <i>Justinien et la civilisation byzantine au VIe siècle</i>, Paris, 1901.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>source: <a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitxer:Justinian_Multiple_Solidi.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitxer:Justinian_Multiple_Solidi.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitxer:Justinian_Multiple_Solidi.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>From CNG:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]566949[/ATTACH] </p><p>&quot;<b>Justinian I. </b>AD 527-565. Æ Medallion (74mm, 87.5 g, 12h). Nimbate, helmeted, and diademed bust facing slightly right, wearing chlamys over cuirass, holding spear in right hand, shield over shoulder / Justinian, holding spear, on horseback right, preceded by Victory advancing right, holding palm; star before head of Justinian; CONOB. A replica of the medallion stolen from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. VF.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>From the British Museum:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]566952[/ATTACH] </p><p>&quot;Electrotype copies of a gold medallion of Justinian I&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>What was the weight and size of the genuine one? The same as a normal Solidus?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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