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ID number: BIRBI-B1932 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; South East Turkey 1966 Hoard Maker: Maurice; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 589-590 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.10 Weight (g): 11.86 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 5336. Spink, July 1966. "From South East Turkey in a large, base metal lot of Anastasios-Herakleios". |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing cuirass, and plumed helmet with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D N mAVR TIbЄR PP AVC (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO ϚII (Year 8). Mint mark: CO… Control mark: Δ (4).
Bibliography: MIB II 67D
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