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ID number:  BIRBI-B2159
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:  584-585
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  3.10
Weight (g):  12.42
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 2217. Gift of C.H. Biddulph, 18th February 1953; "Found in India, c.1900".
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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: ΠNISIOC- - … NTΛAPPV (Garbled inscription). Reverse: ANNO III (Year 3). Mint mark: τHЄUPs.

Bibliography:  MIB II 95Ab

3 Related People

Maurice
Byzantine
c.539
602
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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Antioch



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