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ID number: BIRBI-B2159 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Maurice; Antioch Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 584-585 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.10 Weight (g): 12.42 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2217. Gift of C.H. Biddulph, 18th February 1953; "Found in India, c.1900". |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing trefoil crown with pendilia, chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding mappa aloft in r.hand, and eagle-topped sceptre in l.hand. Reverse: Arched M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ΠNISIOC- - … NTΛAPPV (Garbled inscription). Reverse: ANNO III (Year 3). Mint mark: τHЄUPs.
Bibliography: MIB II 95Ab
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