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ID number: BIRBI-B2523 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: 607-608 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.25 Weight (g): 12.91 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5442. Spink, 18th January 1967. |
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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. A star in the l. of the field. Reverse: XXXX.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ N FOCAS PЄRP AV (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO Ϛ (Year 6). Mint mark: CON. Control mark: Є (5).
Bibliography: MIB II 61c
Notes: Vestiges of overstriking on reverse, outside of die border.
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