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ID number: BIRBI-B4485 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Philippikos; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 711-713 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.20 Weight (g): 5.14 Axis (degrees): 225.00 Provenance: Whitting 1912. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Philippikos bearded, facing, wearing loros and cross crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand and eagle-topped sceptre in l.. Reverse: M with cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: -H FLЄ PICЧ… (Our lord Philippikos). Officina: B (2). Mint mark: CON.
Bibliography: MIB III, 21.
Notes: Overstruck, not clear on what.
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