WHW 5

  • WHW 5
  • Byzantine
  • Commercial weight
  • Circa 5th-6th century AD
  • 1-libra (72 nomismata)
  • Copper alloy
  • Cast and originally inlaid with silver.
  • Octagon
  • 58mm
  • 58mm
  • 11mm
  • 320.35g
  • Pondera # - (not in the accessible data)
  • Wadih Hadad Collection (Beirut), purchased from the Eparch Collection during the Nomos AG, Auction 13 (7 October, 2016), lot 324
  • 2016-10-07

Cross on triangular base (in center),

N (nomismata, at the end of right arm), O (70, at the top), B (2, at the end pf left arm), ’72-nomismata’

⇑ – Α (in field), ‘One libra

all within a hatched octagonal frame, with a circle at each angle

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