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ID number: BIRBI-B1741 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Tiberius II; Ravenna Denomination: Solidus Place made: Ravenna Culture: Byzantine Date made: 578-582 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.20 Weight (g): 4.50 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1740. A.H. Baldwin, 1st January 1969. |

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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: Cross potent on four steps.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D m TIB CONS TANT PP AVS (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTORI A AVCC (Imperial victory). Mint mark: CONOB. Control mark: H.
Bibliography: MIB II 15
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