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ID number: BIRBI-B1923 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; South East Turkey 1966 Hoard Maker: Maurice; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 588-589 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.85 Weight (g): 9.95 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 5338. Spink, July 1966. "From South East Turkey in a large, base metal lot of Anastasios-Herakleios". |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing cuirass, and plumed helmet with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: O N m … bЄR PP AV … (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO ϚI (Year 7). Mint mark: CON. Control mark: Є (5).
Bibliography: MIB II 67D
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