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ID number: BIRBI-B3728 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Maurice; Herakleios I; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 582-602; 610-641 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.7 Weight (g): 12.46 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3916. Spink, January 1961. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and cross-topped crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: M; cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ N mAVRICI … P AVC (Our lord Maurice, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO … ([Inferred] Year 1-20). Mint mark: CON. Control mark: B (2).
Bibliography: (Original) MIB II 65Da; (Countermark) MIB III Km.1
Notes: Single-faced countermark on the reverse of a monogram of Herakleios.
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