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ID number: BIRBI-B2000 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: 591-592 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.60 Weight (g): 5.75 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 1888. |

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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 decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: K, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D N m … R … TIbЄ … (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO X (Year 10). Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB II 70D
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