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ID number:  BIRBI-B2275
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:  592-593
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  1.75
Weight (g):  2.69
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 1499.
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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. Reverse: I, cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: ∂ N mAV CN … (Our lord Maurice, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO XI (Year 11). Mint mark: … HЄUP.

Bibliography:  MIB II 102C

3 Related People

Maurice
Byzantine
c.539
602
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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Antioch



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