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ID number: BIRBI-B2038 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): 2.45 Weight (g): 6.27 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3253. B.A. Seaby, 24th October 1958. |

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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 N mAVR … b PP AVC (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO II (Year 2). Mint mark: TЄS.
Bibliography: MIB II 112D
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