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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B1846 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Italian Hoard Maker: Maurice; Constantinople Denomination: Light-weight Solidus Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 583-602 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.25 Weight (g): 4.24 Axis (degrees): 225.00 Provenance: Whitting 967. Italian hoard, December 1960. |
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Description: Obverse: Facing bust of Maurice, wearing cuirass and plumed helmet with pendilia, holding in r. hand a globus cruciger, on l. shoulder a fold of the paludamentum. Star in r. of field. Reverse: Angel standing facing, holding in r. hand a staff topped with chrismon and in l. hand a globus cruciger. Inscriptions: Obverse: ON MAVRC TIbPPAVI (Our lord Maurice Tiberius Emperor in Perpetuity). Reverse: VICTORI AAVCC… (Imperial Victory). Control mark: Γ. Mint mark: CONOB. Bibliography: DOC I pl LXVI AV5d.2; MIB 2 pl 18 AV10.2 Notes: Double struck. |
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4 Related People | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Italian Hoard | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Maurice Byzantine c.539 602 | |
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