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ID number: BIRBI-B1956 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: 596-597 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.00 Weight (g): 10.84 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting Unnumbered. Hall Sale, November 1950. |

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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 on l. arm. Reverse: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … mAVRICI TIbЄR PP … (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO XЧ (Year 15). Mint mark: CON. Control mark: Γ (3).
Bibliography: MIB II 67D
Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse, on a Justinian II or Justin II follis.
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