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ID number: BIRBI-B2256 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Maker: Maurice; Antioch Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Eurasia: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 593-594 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.25 Weight (g): 6.01 Axis (degrees): 180.00 |
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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 mAUΓ CN P AUT (Our lord Maurice, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO IIX (Year 12). Mint mark: R.
Bibliography: MIB II 99C
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