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ID number: BIRBI-B1683 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Tiberius II; Kyzikos Denomination: Follis Place made: Kyzikos Culture: Byzantine Date made: 579-580 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.30 Weight (g): 15.43 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 0277. |

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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: ∂ m TIb CONS … PP AVI (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO Ϛ (Year 6). Mint mark: KYZ. Officina: B (2).
Bibliography: MIB II 41
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