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ID number: BIRBI-B1696 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Tiberius II; Nikomedia Denomination: Follis Place made: Izmit Culture: Byzantine Date made: 581-582 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.05 Weight (g): 11.93 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2994. Spink, August 1955. |
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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: ... TIb CONS TANT PP AVI (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO ϚII (Year 8). Mint mark: NIKO. Officina: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB II 35
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