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ID number:  BIRBI-B2242
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Maurice; Antioch
Denomination:  Half-Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Antioch
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  589-590
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.20
Weight (g):  4.25
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 1605.
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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: XX, cross above; pellet in between.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: mTUN … ƧTNPPIV (Garbled Inscription). Reverse: ANNO IIIЧ (Year 8). Mint mark: R.

Bibliography:  MIB II 97

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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Maurice
Byzantine
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