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ID number:  BIRBI-B2033
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Maurice; Sicily
Denomination:  Solidus
Place made:  Europe: Italy, Sicily
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  584-602
Metal:  Gold
Diameter (cm):  2.20
Weight (g):  4.47
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 1235. Spink, July 1963; "From Egypt".
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and plumed helmet with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: Victoria facing, standing, holding globus cruciger in l. hand, and crismon topped staff in r. hand.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: D N mAVRC TIb PP AVC (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTOR … A AVCC. Mint mark: CONOB. Control mark: K.

Bibliography:  MIB II 21

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Sicily
Roman;Ostrogothic;Italian;Aghlabid;Norman;Sicilian


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Maurice
Byzantine
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602
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