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ID number: BIRBI-B1947 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Maurice; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 594-595 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.10 Weight (g): 10.54 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2317. Hugh de Sausmarez Shortt, May 1953. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing cross crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … N m … P AV (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANN… XIII (Year 13). Mint mark: CON. Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB II 65Da
Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse; doublestruck on reverse at different angles.
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