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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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