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ID number: BIRBI-B1723 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: 581-582 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.10 Weight (g): 11.75 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 6988. A.H. Baldwin, 8th July 1969; "from Greece." |

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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: … S [on its side] IONƧITAPPTIV (Garbled Inscription). Reverse: ...NNO ϚII (Year 8). Mint mark: τHЄЧP'.
Notes: Counterfeit?
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