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ID number: BIRBI-B2505 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Phocas; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 604-605 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.10 Weight (g): 13.25 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 6798. Tchalikian, 2nd April 1969 (Beirut). |
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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 eagle-topped sceptre in l. hand. Cross in the l. of the field. Reverse: XXXX.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … N … A … PЄRP AVC (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO III (Year 3). Mint mark: CON. Control mark: … (Untranslatable control mark).
Bibliography: MIB II 61d
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