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ID number: BIRBI-B2598 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Phocas; Leontia; Kyzikos Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Eurasia: Mysia, Kyzikos Culture: Byzantine Date made: 602-603 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.4 Weight (g): 6.59 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 3131. Spink, February 1957; "From Cyprus". |
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Description: Obverse: Phocas and Leontia, standing, nimbate; Leontia wearing a trefoil crown, and holding a cross sceptre in l. hand, Phocas wearing a crown with pendilia, and holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Cross in between the head of Phocas and Leontia. Reverse: XX; cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … m FOC A PP … (Our lord Phocas, eternal). Reverse: None. Mint mark: KYZ. Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB II 78
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