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ID number: BIRBI-B1980 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Maurice; Constantinople Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 586-587 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.25 Weight (g): 5.21 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1893. "Brought from North Africa in September 1952 by a national service man". |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing cuirass, and crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: K, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: O N mAV … PP … (Our lord Maurice, eternal Augustus). Reverse: … NO Ч (Year 5). Control mark: B (2).
Bibliography: MIB II 69C
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