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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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Whitting, Philip David
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1903
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