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ID number: BIRBI-B2268 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Maurice; Antioch Denomination: Decanummium Place made: Eurasia: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 584-585 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.85 Weight (g): 2.44 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1598. |
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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: X, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … b~ ~ΠI-ITV (Garbled Inscription). Reverse: ANNO III (Year 3). Mint mark: … (Untranslatable mint mark).
Bibliography: MIB II 100b
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