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ID number: BIRBI-B1714 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Tiberius II; Antioch Denomination: Follis Place made: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 580-581 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.00 Weight (g): 12.59 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 731. Ex Edward Shepherd collectin, 1924. |
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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 TANT PP AVI (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO ϚI (Year 7). Mint mark: τHЄЧP.
Bibliography: MIB II 47a
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