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ID number: BIRBI-B4449 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: 698-705 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.55 Weight (g): 8.43 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1914. Bought Cunningham February 1951. |

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Description: Obverse: bust of Tiberios facing , wearing military dress and crown, holding spear across front of body in r. hand. Reverse: M denomination mark.
Inscriptions: Obverse: TIIER…OS IE (Tiberios). Reverse: …NNO (Year). Off. Г. Mint Mark: CO…
Bibliography: DOC II.2 pl.XLI AE8c; MIB III Tiberius pl.45 Küpfer 73.
Notes: Coin overstruck on Constantine IV Constantinopolitan 20 nummi type AE35, visible on reverse. Potential unidentified second undertype with mint mark T on rev and bust with loros on obv.
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