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ID number: BIRBI-B2323 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Maurice; Carthage Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Carthage Culture: Byzantine Date made: 584-585 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.00 Weight (g): 5.72 Axis (degrees): 270.00 Provenance: Whitting 4721. P.W. Selby, 18th July 1964; "From a mixed lot". |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice, wearing cuirass, and cross topped crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: K; cross between the N and M, and a star in the l. and r. of the field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … N TIbЄ … AVRICI P (Our lord Tiberius Maurice, eternal). Reverse: N M (Nummi); … ND III (Indictio 3, i.e. Year 3).
Bibliography: MIB II 119
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