Online Collections at UoB - Objects
Go to the Advanced Search
Viewing Record 1 of 1 


Numismatics

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".
BIRBI-B1932.jpg

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

4 Related People

Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


Whitting_Phillip-T.jpg
Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Maurice
Byzantine
c.539
602
South East Turkey 1966 Hoard



Viewing Record 1 of 1