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ID number: BIRBI-B1672 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: Decanummium Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 578-582 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.05 Weight (g): 2.39 Axis (degrees): 270.00 Provenance: Whitting 1640. A.H. Baldwin, May 1949. |
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Description: Obverse: Tiberius facing, wearing cross crown with pendilia, paludamentum. Reverse: X, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ m TIb … PP ... (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: None.
Bibliography: MIB II pl.13 31 (exact coin)
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