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ID number: BIRBI-B4445 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Tiberios III; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 698-699 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.30 Weight (g): 3.55 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1913. Bought Cunningham Februrary 1951. |

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Description: Obverse: bust of Tiberios facing , wearing military dress and crown with cross, holding spear across front of body in r. hand. Reverse: M denomination mark.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ...IbERI OP PE AV (Tiberios eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO I (Year 1). Off. A. Mint Mark: CON.
Bibliography: MIB III Tiberius pl.45 Küpfer 73; DOC II.2 pl.XLI AE8c.
Notes: Obverse iconography differs slightly from MIB III Tiberius pl.45 Küpfer 73 with only two letters of the inscription appearing after the spear, rather than three.
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