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Numismatics 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 British 1899 1981-09-14 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Phocas Byzantine c.547 610 | |
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