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ID number: BIRBI-B1968 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: 602 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.20 Weight (g): 12.06 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 5744. Tchalikian, 8th April 1968. |
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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 with cross atop eagle in l.hand; cross to the l. of Maurice's head. Reverse: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D N mAVR … VC (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: … NO XXI (Year 21). Mint mark: CON. Control mark: Γ (3).
Bibliography: MIB II 68b
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