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ID number:  BIRBI-B2511
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:  606-607
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  3.05
Weight (g):  11.51
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 2956. B.A. Seaby, July 1954.
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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 cross-topped sceptre in l. hand. Reverse: XXXX.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: o N Γ … RP AVC (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: A … O Ч (Year 5). Mint mark: CON. Control mark: A (1).

Bibliography:  MIB II 61a

Notes:  Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype a coin of Nikomedia, possibly year 6 to 9 of an emperor.

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