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ID number: BIRBI-B1726 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: Half-Follis Place made: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 578 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.55 Weight (g): 7.14 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1405. Glendining, 3rd May 1951. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Tiberius facing, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and cross crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm; cross to the r. Reverse: K, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: o N TIO CONS TA ... (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO IIII (Year 4) Mint mark: P (with a tail).
Bibliography: MIB II 49
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