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Coptic Letter
7th - 8th century
Framed papyrus fragment of a Coptic letter, labelled: "COPTIC LETTER Pap: Cantab H. Loewe 1 a+b 70844" Cantab is a shortened version of Cambridge. The reference number is the original University acc...
Denomination: forty nummi
Date(s): 527-528
Issuer/creator: Justinian I (527-65)
Place: Antioch
Material: copper alloy
Denomination: forty nummi
Date(s): 642-643
Issuer/creator: Constans II (641-68)
Place: Constantinople
Material: copper alloy
Denomination: tetarteron
Date(s): 1152-1160
Issuer/creator: Manuel I (1143-83)
Place: Thessalonica
Material: copper alloy
Dragon initial (fol. 62v)
[ca. 1140-1160]
Large zoomorphic initial 'Q' where the descender is composed of a dragon clutching the body of the letter with its teeth. The body of the letter is infilled with curved foliage and two lizard-like ani...
Denomination: Roman provincial coin
Date(s): c. 27 BCE
Issuer/creator: Augustus
Place: uncertain mint
Material: copper alloy
Christian liberty as it was soberly desired in a letter to certain forreign states, upon occasion of their late severity to several of their inhabitants, meerly for their different perswasion and practice in point of faith and worship towards God. Made publick on the behalf of the present suffering dissenters within this kingdom
Penn, William (1644-1718)
1674/5
Author's initials given, p.8. Dated at end: London, the 14th December, 1674.
Denomination: follis
Date(s): 319-319
Issuer/creator: Constantine I (306-37)
Place: Trier
Material: copper alloy
Decorated incipit word (fol. 3r)
[ca. 1140-1160]
Large initial 'A' decorated with stylised fan-shaped leaves and curved pen lines, in green, red and blue, followed by the remaining letters of the incipit word 'APOCALIPSIS' in blue and red.
Denomination: denarius serratus
Date(s): 79 BCE
Issuer/creator: Gaius Naevius Balbas
Place: Rome
Material: silver