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Numismatics

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

3 Related People

Maurice
Byzantine
c.539
602
Whitting_Phillip-T.jpg
Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Nikomedia
Roman; Byzantine


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