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ID number:  BIRBI-B2007
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:  594-595
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.45
Weight (g):  4.99
Axis (degrees):  0.00
Provenance:  Whitting 7087. A.H. Baldwin, 8th July 1969.
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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 on l. arm. Reverse: K, cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: D N mAVRC TIbЄR PP … (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO XIII (Year 13). Control mark: Є (5).

Bibliography:  MIB II 70D

Notes:  Clipped at least twice to the top of the obverse.

3 Related People

Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Maurice
Byzantine
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