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ID number: BIRBI-B2048 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Maurice; Thessalonica Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 594-595 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.50 Weight (g): 7.26 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1846. A.H. Baldwin, December 1949. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and plumed helmet with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: K, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D N mAVR … T … b PP A … (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO XIII (Year 13). Mint mark: TЄS.
Bibliography: MIB II 113D
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