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ID number: BIRBI-B2054 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: 602 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.15 Weight (g): 5.03 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1849. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and plumed helmet with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: K, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D N mAV … TIb PP AVC (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO XXI (Year 21). Mint mark: TЄS.
Bibliography: MIB II 113D
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