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ID number: BIRBI-B1668 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Tiberius II; Constantinople Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 578-582 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.75 Weight (g): 6.02 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3488. Glendining, July 1962. |
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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: XX, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ... m TIb CO NTAN P ... (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: None. Mint mark: CON. Officina: Є (5).
Bibliography: MIB II 30
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