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ID number:  BIRBI-B2245
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:  589-590
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.05
Weight (g):  4.02
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 3349. A.H. Baldwin, 25th April 1959.
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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.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: … CON … TAN PP ([Inferred] Our lord Tiberius Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO ЧIII (Year 8). Mint mark: P, with tail.

Bibliography:  MIB II 97

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