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ID number: BIRBI-B2202 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: 595-596 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.85 Weight (g): 10.77 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1536. A.H. Baldwin, November 1952; "From North Africa". |

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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 [Ligature above] mAUΓ I CNP [Ligature above] AUT (Our lord Maurice). Reverse: … NO XIIII (Year 14). Mint mark: … HЄUPs. Control mark: … (Untranslatable Control mark).
Bibliography: MIB II 96C
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