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ID number:  BIRBI-B2213
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:  598-599
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.85
Weight (g):  11.77
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 1515. A.H. Baldwin, 1949.
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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 CNP [Ligature above] AUT (Our lord Maurice). Reverse: ANNO XЧII (Year 17). Mint mark: τHЄUPs. Control mark: A (1).

Bibliography:  MIB II 96C

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