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ID number: BIRBI-B2016 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Maurice; Antioch Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Eurasia: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 601-602 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.45 Weight (g): 7.05 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3887. Spink, 6th May 1960. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing crown with pendilia, chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding mappa aloft in r.hand, and eagle-topped sceptre with cross atop eagle in l.hand. Reverse: K, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … N mA … CN P A … (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANN… XX (Year 20). Mint mark: P, with tail.
Bibliography: MIB II 99C
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