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ID number: BIRBI-B2101 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: 601-602 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.40 Weight (g): 12.19 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1330. Glendining, 3rd May 1951. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing crown with pendilia, chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding mappa aloft in r.hand, and eagle-topped sceptre with cross atop eagle in l.hand; cross in the l. of the field. Reverse: M, chrismon above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: O N mAV … (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: … NNO XX (Year 20). Mint mark: NIK… Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB II 77Db
Notes: Overstruck obverse on obverse over a Tiberius II coin, wreath border on reverse of undertype.
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