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ID number: BIRBI-B1710 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Tiberius II; Antioch Denomination: Follis Place made: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 578-579 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.15 Weight (g): 14.58 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1997. |
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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: … TANT PP VJ (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal [inferred, Augustus]). Reverse: ANN... Ч (Year 5). Mint mark: ...HЄUPS.
Bibliography: DOC I AE 41 (var); MIB II pl.15 47a1 (same type as the coin in pl.15, not the type in the catalogue)
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