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ID number: BIRBI-B2235 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): 2.30 Weight (g): 7.01 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1435. Glendining, 3rd May 1951. |

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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: XX, cross above; pellet in between.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ΠITIOC ~ … TPPIV (Garbled Inscription). Reverse: ANNO II (Year 2). Mint mark: Q.
Bibliography: MIB II 97
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