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ID number: BIRBI-B2003 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: 592-593 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.25 Weight (g): 6.87 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0122. |
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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 on l. arm. Reverse: K, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D N mAVRIC TIbЄRI PP A … (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO XI (Year 11). Control mark: B (2).
Bibliography: MIB II 69D
Notes: Piercing in the bottom of the obverse. Clipped at least three times to the top of the obverse.
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