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ID number:  BIRBI-B1869
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.; Akkar Hoard
Maker:  Maurice; Constantinople
Denomination:  Solidus
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  582-583
Metal:  Gold
Diameter (cm):  2.25
Weight (g):  4.47
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 795. 2nd February 1959, (per A.H. Baldwin); "Hama II (i.e. Akkar Hoard)".
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and cross crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: Victoria facing, standing, holding globus in l. hand, and crismon topped staff in r. hand.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: O N Nb TIb ЄRI PP AVC (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTORI A AVCC (Imperial victory). Mint mark: CONOB. Control mark: I (10).

Bibliography:  MIB II 3

4 Related People

Akkar Hoard



Maurice
Byzantine
c.539
602
Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
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