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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B2624
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Phocas; Antioch
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Antioch
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  610
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.7
Weight (g):  10.87
Axis (degrees):  0.00
Provenance:  Haines 2187. A.H. Baldwin, 1942.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Phocas facing, bearded, wearing cross topped crown with pendilia, chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding mappa aloft in r. hand, and eagle-topped sceptre in l. hand. Reverse: Arched M; cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: D [in retrograde] N FOCA NЄPЄ AV (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO ϚIII (Year 9). Mint mark: τHЄЧP'.

Bibliography:  MIB II 84a

3 Related People

Phocas
Byzantine
c.547
610
Antioch



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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
British
1899
1981-09-14
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