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ID number: BIRBI-B2064 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: 585-586 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.05 Weight (g): 12.97 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 4393. "From Israel, c. 1955". |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice or Tiberius II facing, wearing cuirass, and cross crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … m NS … TANTS PP … (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO IIII (Year 4). Mint mark: NI… Control mark: … (untranslatable control mark).
Bibliography: MIB II 75Ab
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