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ID number: BIRBI-B2182 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Karageorgiou, N. C. Maker: Maurice; Antioch Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 590-591 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.10 Weight (g): 12.34 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4760. Karageorghiou, 29th August 1964; "From Istanbul c.1959". |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing trefoil crown with pendilia, chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding mappa aloft in r.hand, and eagle-topped sceptre in l.hand. Reverse: Arched M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D m TIU CONS TAN PP AVI (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO ϚIII (Year 9). Mint mark: τHЄUP'.
Bibliography: MIB II 95Ab
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