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ID number: BIRBI-B1704 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: Half-Follis Place made: Izmit Culture: Byzantine Date made: 578-582 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.40 Weight (g): 6.43 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1825. Glendining, 3rd May 1951. |

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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 C… (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: None. Mint mark: NIKO. Officina: … (Untranslatable Officina).
Bibliography: MIB II 38
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