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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

3 Related People

Nikomedia
Roman; Byzantine


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Maurice
Byzantine
c.539
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