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ID number: BIRBI-B1977 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Maurice; Constantinople Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 583-584 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.45 Weight (g): 6.56 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 7008. P.W. Selby, 21st July 1969; "Gift". |

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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: K, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D N mA VRC PP AC (Our lord Maurice, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO II (Year 2). Control mark: … (untranslatable control mark).
Bibliography: MIB II 69C
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