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ID number: BIRBI-B1740 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Tiberius II; Carthage Denomination: Half-Siliqua Place made: Carthage Culture: Byzantine Date made: 578-582 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 1.35 Weight (g): 1.08 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 5436. A.H. Baldwin, December 1957. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Tiberius facing, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and plumed helmet with diadem with pendilia, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: Cross, with a pellet in the upper r. quadrant, and a pellet in the upper l. quadrant.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … S PP A (Our lord Tiberius, Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: LV X M/UNDI (Light of the World).
Bibliography: MIB II 20
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