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ID number: BIRBI-B2183 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Maurice; Antioch Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 590-591 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.95 Weight (g): 12.77 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 1400. W.S. Lincoln, 1932. |

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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: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ N mAUΓI CNPA [Ligature above PA] UT (Our lord Maurice). Reverse: ANNO ϚIII (Year 9). Mint mark: τHЄUP. Control mark: Γ (3).
Bibliography: MIB II 96C
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