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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

3 Related People

Carthage
Roman;Byzantine


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