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ID number: BIRBI-B2234 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Maurice; Antioch Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Eurasia: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 583-584 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.35 Weight (g): 5.49 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3158. Glendining, March 1957. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing trefoil crown with pendilia, chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding eagle-topped sceptre in l. hand. Reverse: XX, cross above; pellet in between.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … TO~ ~ᴎVPPTIV … PPIV (Garbled Inscription). Reverse: … NNO II (Year 2). Mint mark: Q.
Bibliography: MIB II 97
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