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ID number: BIRBI-B1965 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: 601-602 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.50 Weight (g): 12.55 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5351. Spink, July 1966. "From South East Turkey in a large lot of base metal Anastasios to Herakleios". |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing cross crown with pendilia, chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding mappa aloft in r.hand, and eagle-topped sceptre with cross atop eagle in l.hand. Reverse: M, chrismon above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ N mAVR … (Our lord Maurice). Reverse: ANNO XX (Year 20). Mint mark: CON. Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB II 68d
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