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ID number: BIRBI-B1650 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Tiberius II; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 581-582 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.15 Weight (g): 12.26 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4930. "From Palestine" 1945. |

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Description: Obverse: Tiberius facing, wearing cross crown with pendilia, chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding mappa aloft in r.hand, and eagle-topped sceptre with cross atop eagle in l.hand. Reverse: Arched M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … TIb CO NTANT PP ... (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: …. ϚII (Year 8). Mint mark: CON. Officina: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB II 25
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