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ID number: BIRBI-B2247 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): 2.40 Weight (g): 6.18 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1602. |
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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: … TITIΛ~ ~J … PV (Garbled Inscription). Reverse: ANNO ЧIII (Year 8). Mint mark: Q.
Bibliography: MIB II 97
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