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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B2483 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Athens Hoard Maker: Phocas; Constantinople Denomination: Semissis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 602-607 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 1.95 Weight (g): 2.15 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0578. September 1956; "From a recent find near Athens". |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Phocas, unbearded, facing r., wearing diadem, paludamentum, and cuirass. Reverse: Victory walking r., looking l., holding wreath in r.. hand, and globus cruciger in l. hand. Inscriptions: Obverse: O N FOCA S PP AVC (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTORI A AVCC (Imperial victory). Mint mark: CONOP. Bibliography: MIB II 23a
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| Phocas Byzantine c.547 610 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
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