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ID number: BIRBI-B1887 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Maurice; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 582-583 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.95 Weight (g): 11.31 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 3999. Spink, February 1962. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and cross crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: O N TIbЄR mAVR PP AV (Our lord Tiberius Maurice, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO I (Year 1). Mint mark: CON. Control mark: Ч (5?).
Bibliography: MIB II 65B (var)
Notes: The control mark appears to be V/U, but this is not a listed control mark.
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