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ID number: BIRBI-B2397 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): 2.55 Weight (g): 10.01 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1840. 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 mAVR· … AVC (Our lord Maurice, Augustus). Reverse: ANNO QVINT (Year 5). Mint mark: RAVEN. Control mark: Є (5).
Bibliography: MIB II 144
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