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ID number: BIRBI-B1622 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Tiberius II; Constantinople Denomination: Solidus Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 578-582 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.10 Weight (g): 4.49 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 2451. Ex P.D. Whitting Collection 1952. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Tiberius, facing, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and cross crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: Cross potent on four steps.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ m TIb CONS TANT PP AVC (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTORI A AVCC (Imperial victory). Mint mark: CONOB. Control mark: I (10).
Bibliography: MIB II 4
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