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ID number: BIRBI-B1689 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Tiberius II; Ino Anastasia; Thessalonica Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 581-582 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.10 Weight (g): 5.42 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1824. A.H. Baldwin, October 1952. From North Africa, brought by a National Service man. |

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Description: Obverse: Tiberius and Anastasia, nimbate, seated on a lyre-backed double throne facing; Anastasia wearing a trefoil crown and holding sceptre in l. hand, Tiberius wearing diadem and holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: K with cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ m TIb ... (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO ЧIII (Year 8). Mint mark: T... Officina: None.
Bibliography: MIB II 65
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