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ID number:  BIRBI-B2396
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Maurice; Ravenna
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Europe: Italy, Ravenna
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  586-587
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.40
Weight (g):  8.72
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 1841. A.H. Baldwin, July 1952.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Maurice, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and plumed helmet with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: M, cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: D N mAVRC TIb PP AVC (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO QVNT (Year 5). Mint mark: RAVEN. Control mark: Є (5).

Bibliography:  MIB II 144

3 Related People

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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Maurice
Byzantine
c.539
602
Ravenna
Roman;Byzantine;Italian


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