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ID number:  BIRBI-B2237
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Maurice; Antioch
Denomination:  Half-Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Antioch
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  586-587
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.45
Weight (g):  7.78
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Haines 874. A.H. Baldwin, 1948.
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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: ΠIAIHC~ ~AHΛNPΛ … (Garbled Inscription). Reverse: ANNO Ч (Year 5). Mint mark: Q.

Bibliography:  MIB II 97

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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
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1899
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