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ID number: BIRBI-B2344 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Maurice; Carthage Denomination: Decanummium Place made: Carthage Culture: Byzantine Date made: 592-597 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.00 Weight (g): 5.52 Axis (degrees): 270.00 Provenance: Haines 785. Ex Edward Shepherd Collection, 1924. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and trefoil crown with pendilia. Reverse: I; cross, above, between two pellets. A star to the l. and r. of the field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D N MAVRI Tb PP AVC (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: None. Mint mark: CON.
Bibliography: MIB II 124b
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