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ID number: BIRBI-B1729 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: 580-581 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.40 Weight (g): 6.79 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4644. Spink, 3rd march 1964. |
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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. Reverse: XX, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ m TIO … NT PP AV (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO ϚI (Year 7). Mint mark: P (with a tail).
Bibliography: MIB II 52
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