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ID number: BIRBI-B2253 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: 591-592 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.30 Weight (g): 4.98 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1494. |

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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: K.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ N mAV … N P AV (Our lord Maurice, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO X (Year 10). Mint mark: R.
Bibliography: MIB II 99C
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