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ID number: BIRBI-B1942 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Maker: Maurice; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 591-592 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.00 Weight (g): 10.15 Axis (degrees): 180.00 |

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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: … A … bЄRI PP AVCTS (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: … NN … X (Year 10). Mint mark: CON. Control mark: Є (5).
Bibliography: MIB II 67D (var)
Notes: Apparently unrecorded legend on the obverse. Hole in bottom left of obverse, probably corrosion not a piercing.
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