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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B2693
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Phocas; Catania
Denomination:  Decanummium
Place made:  Europe: Italy, Sicily, Catania
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  605-606
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  1.34
Weight (g):  2.30
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 1877. A.H. Baldwin, April 1949.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Phocas facing, bearded, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and cross topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: I.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: D N FOCA … AV (Our lord Phocas, Augustus). Reverse: … NNO IIII (Year 4). Mint mark: CAT.

Bibliography:  MIB II 104

3 Related People

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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Catania
Byzantine; Sicilian


Phocas
Byzantine
c.547
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