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ID number: BIRBI-B2422 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Phocas; Constantinople Denomination: Solidus Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 603-604 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.15 Weight (g): 4.39 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1190. A.H. Baldwin, November 1962. |
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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: Victoria facing, standing, holding globus cruciger in l. hand, and chrismon topped staff in r. hand.
Inscriptions: Obverse: O N FOCAS PЄRP AV- (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTORI A AVCC (Imperial victory). Mint mark: CONOB. Control mark: I (10).
Bibliography: MIB II 2
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