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ID number: BIRBI-B2075 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; Nikomedia Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Izmit Culture: Byzantine Date made: 587-588 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.95 Weight (g): 11.06 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5331. Spink, July 1966; "From South East Turkey with large base metal lot of Anastasios to Herakleios". |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice, wearing cuirass, and cross crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: O N mAVPI CI TIbЄRI P (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO Ϛ (Year 6). Mint mark: NIKO. Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB II 75D
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