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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
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