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ID number: BIRBI-B2318 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Maurice; Carthage Denomination: Light Half-Siliqua Place made: Carthage Culture: Byzantine Date made: 602 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 1.50 Weight (g): 1.05 Axis (degrees): 90.00 Provenance: Whitting 5065. G.C.H. (exchange), 3rd February 1966; Vinchon, 1957. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing plumed helmet with pendilia, chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding mappa aloft in r.hand, and globus cruciger in l.hand. Reverse: Cross potent on three steps; A to the l., ω to the r; enclosed in a wreath.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … N MA … IC TIb PP A (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: None.
Bibliography: MIB II 61
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