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ID number: BIRBI-B2282 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: 596-597 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.75 Weight (g): 2.78 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1858. |
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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: I, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ N mAU CN P [ligature above] AU (Our lord Maurice, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO XЧ (Year 15). Mint mark: τHEUP'.
Bibliography: MIB II 102C
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