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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
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