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ID number: BIRBI-B1987 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: 587-588 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.35 Weight (g): 6.10 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1896. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing paludamentum, and plumed helmet with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: K, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D N mAV TIbЄR … (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO Ϛ (Year 6). Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB II 70D
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