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ID number: BIRBI-B1654 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Tiberius II; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 581-582 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.30 Weight (g): 12.15 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 2890. Clement Platt, 19 Rue des Petits Champs, Paris |
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Description: Obverse: Tiberius facing, wearing cross crown with pendilia, chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding mappa aloft in r.hand, and eagle-topped sceptre with cross atop eagle in l.hand. Reverse: Arched M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ m TIb CON STANT PP AVI (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO ϚII (Year 8). Mint mark: CON. Officina: Є (5).
Bibliography: MIB II 25
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