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ID number:  BIRBI-B1724
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:  581-582
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  3.05
Weight (g):  9.00
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 5354. Spink, August 1966, "From South-East Turkey."
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Description:  Obverse: Tiberius facing, wearing cross crown with pendilia, 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: … ΠIPPITOCI COIƧNAIT (Garbled Inscription). Reverse: ANNO ϚII (Year 8). Mint mark: τHЄЧP●.

Notes:  Counterfeit?

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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Tiberius II
Byzantine

582
Antioch



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