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ID number: BIRBI-B1690 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Tiberius II; Ino Anastasia; Thessalonica Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 580-581 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.00 Weight (g): 4.76 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0612. |

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Description: Obverse: Tiberius and Anastasia, nimbate, seated on a lyre-backed double throne facing; Anastasia wearing a trefoil crown and holding sceptre in l. hand, Tiberius wearing diadem and holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: K with cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ m TIb CONS TANT PP V (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANN. ЧII (Year 7). Officina: None.
Bibliography: MIB II 65
Notes: Vestiges of overstriking on reverse, the small pellet between the perpendicular limbs of the K may be part of this overstriking, or may be a blundered part of the date, i.e. Year 8 not Year 7.
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