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ID number: BIRBI-B1716 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: 580-581 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.95 Weight (g): 11.75 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1462. Glendining, 6th October 1950. |

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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 A... (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO ϚI (Year 7). Mint mark: τHЄЧP'.
Bibliography: MIB II 47a
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