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ID number: BIRBI-B2143 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Maurice; Kyzikos Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Eurasia: Mysia, Kyzikos Culture: Byzantine Date made: 588-589 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.25 Weight (g): 5.30 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3108. B.A. Seaby, January 1957. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice, wearing cuirass, and cross topped crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: K, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: O N mAVRIC TIb … PP A (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO ϚI (Year 7). Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB II 88D
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