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Numismatics

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

3 Related People

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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Maurice
Byzantine
c.539
602
Carthage
Roman;Byzantine


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