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ID number: BIRBI-B1712 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: 579-580 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.15 Weight (g): 14.74 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5311. A.H. Baldwin, 17th May 1966. "From Syria via Istanbul." |

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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.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ Π TIƧ CONS [on its side] ... (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal [inferred, Augustus]). Reverse: ANNO Ϛ (Year 6). Mint mark: τHЄЧ …
Bibliography: DOC I AE 43 (var)
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