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ID number: BIRBI-B2322 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Maurice; Carthage Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Carthage Culture: Byzantine Date made: 582-583 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.45 Weight (g): 9.66 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1866. Glendining, 3rd May 1951. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice, wearing cuirass, and cross topped crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: Pellet in a circle in the centre; cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … Є m AVRICI PP … ([Inferred] Our lord Tiberius Maurice, eternal Augustus). Reverse: (to l.) K …, (to r.) TϚ (Carthage); … XXM (Twenty Nummi).
Bibliography: MIB II 118
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