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ID number:  BIRBI-B2509
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Phocas; Constantinople
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  605-606
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  3.35
Weight (g):  11.09
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Haines 3729. Spink, 1961.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Phocas facing, bearded, wearing chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding mappa aloft in r. hand, and cross-topped sceptre in l. hand. Reverse: XXXX.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: … RP AVC (eternal Augustus). Reverse: … NO IIII (Year 4). Mint mark: … ON. Control mark: … (Untranslatable control mark).

Bibliography:  MIB II 61a

Notes:  Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype a year 8 (589-590), follis of Maurice, possibly of the Constantinople mint.

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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
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