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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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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
British
1899
1981-09-14
Tiberius II
Byzantine

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