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ID number:  BIRBI-B2037
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Maurice; Thessalonica
Denomination:  Half-Follis
Place made:  Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  583-584
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.30
Weight (g):  6.53
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 7339. A.H. Baldwin, 30th May 1970.
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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 decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: K, cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: D … mAVRIC PP A (Our lord Tiberius Maurice, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANN… II (Year 2). Mint mark: TЄS.

Bibliography:  MIB II 112B

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Whitting, Philip David
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