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ID number: BIRBI-B2091 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: 591-592 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.90 Weight (g): 10.84 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 6576. Tchalikian, 25th January 1969; "Beirut". |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice, wearing cuirass, and helmet with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: O N [in retrograde] m AV TIBЄ (Our lord Maurice Tiberius). Reverse: ANNO X (Year 10). Mint mark: N … O. Control mark: B (2).
Bibliography: MIB II 76Db
Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse, of a follis; uncertain emperor or mint.
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