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ID number:  BIRBI-B2585
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Phocas; Kyzikos
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Mysia, Kyzikos
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  605-606
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.95
Weight (g):  10.94
Axis (degrees):  0.00
Provenance:  Whitting 4492. L.S.F., September 1949; ex Major Kozolubski.
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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. A cross in the l. of the field. Reverse: XXXX.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: ∂ N FOCAS … RP AVC (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO IIII (Year 4). Mint mark: KYZ. Control mark: A (1).

Bibliography:  MIB II 76

3 Related People

Kyzikos
Roman; Byzantine


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