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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B2511 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: 606-607 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.05 Weight (g): 11.51 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2956. B.A. Seaby, July 1954. |
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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: o N Γ … RP AVC (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: A … O Ч (Year 5). Mint mark: CON. Control mark: A (1). Bibliography: MIB II 61a Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype a coin of Nikomedia, possibly year 6 to 9 of an emperor. |
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| Phocas Byzantine c.547 610 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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