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ID number:  BIRBI-B2116
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Maurice; Kyzikos
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Mysia, Kyzikos
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  584-585
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.95
Weight (g):  11.64
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 5884. A.H. Baldwin, 20th May 1968; ex. FitzWilliam (C.D. Sherborn 1939).
BIRBI-B2116.jpg

Description:  Obverse: Bust of Maurice, wearing cuirass, and cross topped crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: M, cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: O N mAVRIC T IbЄR P … (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO III (Year 3). Mint mark: KYZ. Control mark: A (1).

Bibliography:  MIB II 84D

3 Related People

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


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