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ID number: BIRBI-B3729 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Maurice; Herakleios I; Nikomedia Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Izmit Culture: Byzantine Date made: 588-589; 610-641 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.25 Weight (g): 12.01 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1512. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and crown or helmet with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: M.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … N m … V … Ib PP (Our lord Maurice Tiberius, eternal). Reverse: … NNO ϚI (Year 7). Mint mark: NIKO. Control mark: B (2).
Bibliography: (Original) MIB II 75D or 76Db; (Countermark) MIB III Km.1a
Notes: Single-faced countermark on the reverse of a monogram of Herakleios.
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