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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B2097
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:  596-597
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  3.10
Weight (g):  11.19
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 3135. Spink, February 1957; "From Cyprus".
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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: … N m … T … PR (Our lord Maurice Tiberius). Reverse: … N… XЧ (Year 15). Mint mark: NIK… Control mark: A (1).

Bibliography:  MIB II 76Db

Notes:  Overstruck obverse on obverse, probably on a year 25 coin of Justinian I

3 Related People

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


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