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ID number: BIRBI-B2139 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: 601-602 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.20 Weight (g): 12.87 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4998. R.M. Cunningham, February 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. Reverse: M, chrismon above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: O N mAV RICI TIb ЄR PP A … (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO XX (Year 20). Mint mark: KYZ. Control mark: B (2).
Bibliography: MIB II 86Db
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