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ID number: BIRBI-B1609 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Beirut Hoard Maker: Tiberius II; Constantinople Denomination: Solidus Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 578-582 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.05 Weight (g): 4.36 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 988. "From Beirut" A.H. Baldwin January 1961. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Tiberius, facing, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and cross crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: Cross potent formed of pellets, on four steps.
Inscriptions: Obverse: o m ...b CONS TANT PP AVI (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTORI A AVCC (Imperial victory). Mint mark: CONOB. Control mark: Γ (3).
Bibliography: MIB II 4
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