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ID number:  BIRBI-B2505
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Phocas; Constantinople
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  604-605
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  3.10
Weight (g):  13.25
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 6798. Tchalikian, 2nd April 1969 (Beirut).
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Phocas facing, bearded, wearing cross topped crown, chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding mappa aloft in r. hand, and eagle-topped sceptre in l. hand. Cross in the l. of the field. Reverse: XXXX.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: … N … A … PЄRP AVC (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO III (Year 3). Mint mark: CON. Control mark: … (Untranslatable control mark).

Bibliography:  MIB II 61d

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3 Related People

Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


Phocas
Byzantine
c.547
610
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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
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