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ID number: BIRBI-B2060 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Maurice; Nikomedia Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Izmit Culture: Byzantine Date made: 584-585 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.90 Weight (g): 12.00 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2760. Glendining, 3rd May 1951. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice or Tiberius II facing, wearing cuirass, and crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D m TIb CO NTS PP AVC (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: … NNO III (Year 3). Mint mark: NI… Control mark: B (2).
Bibliography: MIB II 75Ab
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