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ID number:  BIRBI-B2095
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.; South East Turkey 1966 Hoard
Maker:  Maurice; Nikomedia
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Izmit
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  595-596
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  3.05
Weight (g):  11.88
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 5333. Spink, July 1966; "From South East Turkey".
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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.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: D N mAV TIPЄ P (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: … NNO XIIII (Year 14). Mint mark: NIKO. Control mark: A (1).

Bibliography:  MIB II 76Db

4 Related People

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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
South East Turkey 1966 Hoard



Nikomedia
Roman; Byzantine


Maurice
Byzantine
c.539
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