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Technical Observations: The patina is dark green with spots of red. White accretions are also present in the inscribed lines. All edges are smooth from handling. The incised lines have been roughly cleaned, making it difficult to see the nature of…

Silver ingots like this were used to pay soldiers and civil servants in the Late Roman Empire. The stamped inscription reads EX OFFE HONORINI, which translates 'from the workshop of Honorinus'. It was found in 1777 with two gold coins of the emperor…

Gold currency-bar stamped four times with a rectangular stamp recording the name of the procurator, Flavianus and once with the name of the assayer, Lucianus.

This is one of a hoard of fifteen such bars found in a Carpathian mountain pass in the…

Body-chain with coin-set clasp. Four chains are joined so as to form an upper-body decoration passing over the shoulders and under the arms of the wearer, and crossing at the front and back. The chains are of complex loop-in-loop construction…

Coin of Justinian; gold; pierced with two holes; obverse, head of Justinian to right and inscription; reverse, Victory holding a wreath and globus crucifer, and inscription.

Uniface imitation of Byzantine gold coin. (whole)
Blank. (reverse)
Three-quarter face bust of Justinian I. (obverse)

Curator's comments
Stein 1928, p.646: "The fact that out of the four coins actually found by us in the mouths of Astana corpses…

Gold coin; imitation of Byzantine coin.
Curator's comments
Stein 1928, p.648: "Tomb i.5, which lay nearest to i.1 in a southerly direction, was found to contain three bodies, lying with their heads to the south. The one next to the entrance, (a),…

Silver coin. (whole)
Diademed, draped profile bust, right, of Anastasius I, below ... (obverse)
Monogram of Theodoric, cross above, star below. (reverse)

Gold coin. (whole)
Victory holding long cross. (reverse)
Cuirassed bust facing with shield and spear over shoulder. (obverse)

Inscriptions
Obverse: DN ANASTA - SIVS PP AVG
Reverse: VICTORI - AAVGGG I
Mintmark: CONOB