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ID number:  BIRBI-B2385
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Maurice; Sicily
Denomination:  Decannumium
Place made:  Europe: Italy, Sicily
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  587-592
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  1.45
Weight (g):  2.96
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 1838. Glendining, 3rd May 1951.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Maurice, wearing cuirass, and plumed helmet with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: X.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: D N mAVR … (Our lord Maurice). Reverse: SE/CI/LI/A (Sicily).

Bibliography:  MIB II 140

3 Related People

Maurice
Byzantine
c.539
602
Whitting_Phillip-T.jpg
Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Sicily
Roman;Ostrogothic;Italian;Aghlabid;Norman;Sicilian


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