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ID number: BIRBI-B4446 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Tiberios III; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 698-699 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 3.10 Weight (g): 9.56 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 5534. Bought Spink 14th July 1967. |

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Description: Obverse: bust of Tiberios facing , wearing military dress and crown with cross, holding spear across front of body in r. hand. Reverse: M denomination mark.
Inscriptions: Obverse: O TIIERI… (Lord Tiberios). Reverse: …I (Year 1). Off. B. Mint Mark: …ON.
Bibliography: DOC II.2 pl.XLI AE8b.2; MIB III Tiberius pl.45 Küpfer 73.
Notes: Coin overstruck on unidentified follis, with undertype M denomination mark present to r. of obverse emperor bust. Possibly double-overstruck, with undertype on reverse not clearly identifiable as an obverse type connected to to the reverse undertype on coin obverse.
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