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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B2365
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Maurice; Carthage
Denomination:  Pentanummium
Place made:  Carthage
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  582-583
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  1.40
Weight (g):  2.00
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 0102.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and crown with pendilia. Reverse: Cross potent.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: D N TI … RIC PP AV (Our lord Tiberius Maurice, eternal Augustus). Reverse: N M V (Five Nummi).

Bibliography:  MIB II 127

3 Related People

Carthage
Roman;Byzantine


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