Follis Iustinian I, g bronze, total: diameter: 3 cm, inscription: Obverse: next to the head on the right a cross, circumferential inscription DN IVSTINIANVS PP AUC, coins, numismatics, portrait, portrait of ruler, state portrait, historical person, emperor, late antiquity, Originally the follis was introduced by the Roman emperor Diocletian in his coinage reform around 294 AD. Coined from bronze, the coins were covered with a thin silver film. Since the currency reform of the emperor Anastastius around 498 they have been large bronze coins.

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