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ID number:  BIRBI-B2254
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:  590-593
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.35
Weight (g):  5.83
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 1496.
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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, cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: ∂ N mAV … CN P A … (Our lord Maurice, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO IX (Year 9, or Year 11). Mint mark: P.

Bibliography:  MIB II 99C

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Maurice
Byzantine
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Whitting, Philip David
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1903
1988
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