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ID number: BIRBI-B2104 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Maurice; Uncertain mint Denomination: Follis Culture: Byzantine Date made: 596-601 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.05 Weight (g): 11.81 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3110. "From Jordan," January 1957. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice, wearing cuirass, and helmet with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: N I ∂ ITIC … P A ([Inferred] Our lord Maurice, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO XЧ or XЧIIII (Year 15 or 19). Mint mark: … (Untranslatable mint mark). Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB II 76Db
Notes: Overstruck obverse on obverse, on a year nineteen coin of Kyzikos, either from the reign of Justinian I or Maurice. If from the reign of Maurice, the overtype is of the same year, i.e. Year 19.
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