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ID number: BIRBI-B1748 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Tiberius II; Rome Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Rome Culture: Byzantine Date made: 578-582 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.10 Weight (g): 4.75 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 772. 1924, ex. Edward Shepherd Collection. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Tiberius facing, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and trefoil crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: XX, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ... m TIb CO NSTA … V ... (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: None. Mint mark: ROM.
Bibliography: MIB II 73 (Moneta Militaris Imitativa), DOC I AE 61a-c
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