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ID number: BIRBI-B2153 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Maurice; Antioch Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 582-583 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.15 Weight (g): 12.83 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5463. A.H. Baldwin, April 1967; "from Istanbul; found with years 1-3 of Phokas and Leontia". |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing trefoil crown with pendilia, chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding mappa aloft in r.hand, and eagle-topped sceptre in l.hand. Reverse: Arched M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: P Ц [in retrograde] TΛτC- τSPLLTΛLUτ (Garbled inscription). Reverse: ANNO I (Year 1). Mint mark: τHЄUP'.
Bibliography: MIB II 95Ab
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