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Numismatics

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

3 Related People

Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


Maurice
Byzantine
c.539
602
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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
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