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ID number: BIRBI-B1944 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: 592-593 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.35 Weight (g): 11.23 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3102. A.H. Baldwin, December 1956. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing cuirass, 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: … RI TIbЄR PP AV (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANN… XI (Year 11). Mint mark: CON. Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB II 65Da
Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse of a Tiberius II follis of Constantinople off. E (5). Pierced to left of obverse.
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