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ID number:  BIRBI-B2226
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:  601-602
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.80
Weight (g):  11.01
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 1540. Hall sale, November 1950.
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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: M, cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: ∂ N mAUΓ ICNP [Ligature above] AUT (Our lord Maurice). Reverse: ANNO XX (Year 20). Mint mark: τHЄUP'. Control mark: Γ (3).

Bibliography:  MIB II 96C

3 Related People

Maurice
Byzantine
c.539
602
Whitting_Phillip-T.jpg
Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Antioch



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