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ID number: BIRBI-B1708 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Tiberius II; Antioch Denomination: Follis Place made: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 578 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.20 Weight (g): 14.87 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3919. A.H. Baldwin, January 1961. |

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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; and cross r. Reverse: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D [retrograde] N T... STAT PP AS [ligature line above S] (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO IIII (Year 4). Mint mark: τHЄЧP' Officina: Γ (3).
Bibliography: MIB II 46 (var.)
Notes: The inscription is an unrecorded variant, note the ligature line above the S - this is unusual.
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