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ID number: BIRBI-B2508 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: 605-606 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.25 Weight (g): 13.46 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2287. Spink, July 1953. |
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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: XXXX.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … CA PЄRP AVC (Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: … NNO IIII (Year 4). Mint mark: CON. Control mark: Γ (3).
Bibliography: MIB II 61a
Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype a year 6 (587-588), half-follis coin of Maurice.
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