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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B2379
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Maurice; Catania
Denomination:  Decanummium
Place made:  Europe: Italy, Sicily, Catania
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  602
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  1.55
Weight (g):  2.60
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 1860. A.H. Baldwin, January 1952.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Maurice, wearing cuirass, and plumed helmet with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: I.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: D N m … P AVC (Our lord Maurice, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO XXI (Year 21). Mint mark: CAT.

Bibliography:  MIB II 137D

3 Related People

Maurice
Byzantine
c.539
602
Catania
Byzantine; Sicilian


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
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