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ID number: BIRBI-B2240 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: 587-588 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.55 Weight (g): 6.85 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3034. A.H. Baldwin, November 1955. |
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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.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … TIb CON … PP A (Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: … NO Ϛ (Year 6). Mint mark: P.
Bibliography: MIB II 97
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