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ID number: BIRBI-B1966 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Maurice; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 601-602 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.35 Weight (g): 13.56 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5116. A.H. Baldwin, September 1952. "Brought from North Africa by a national service man in the RAF, in 1952". |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing cross crown with pendilia, chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding mappa aloft in r.hand, and eagle-topped sceptre in l.hand. Reverse: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ N mAVR TIbЄR P … (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO XX (Year 20). Mint mark: CON. Control mark: B (2).
Bibliography: MIB II 68a
Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse, over a Nikomedia coin of an uncertain emperor.
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