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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 4282423, member: 104887&quot;]Hi All, Alexandrian 33 Nummi</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1089663[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Justinian I (527-565 CE)</b></p><p><b>Egypt, Alexandria Undated: 539 - 543 CE</b></p><p><b>Size:</b> 27mm</p><p><b>Weight:</b> 10.4 g</p><p><b>Axis:</b> 6:00</p><p><b>References:</b> DO-273; Sear Byz-246.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Obv:</b> Justinian I, diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed facing bust, holding globus cruciger and shield decorated with horseman motif; cross to right. Legend: DNIVSTINI - ANVSPPAVG. Dotted border.</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Large ΛΓ with cross between. In exergue: AΛЄΞ. Dotted</p><p>border.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>CNG eAuction 228, Lot#342.</i></b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Greirson (1982):</b> &quot;Justinian&#039;s reform of 539 made a brief impression at Alexandria, for there exist rare coins of this mint with facing bust and mark of value lambda-gamma. They can probably be dated 539-43, like the heaviest series of folles elsewhere. Some scholars have interpreted lambda-gamma as meaning three litra, the litron being a unit occasionally referred to in papyri, but the more general view is that it is the numeral 33, i.e. 33 nummi, which though not an exact multiple of the dodecanummium was one-third of a hundred and in that way conveniently related to the solidus.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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