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ID number:  BIRBI-B2524
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:  608-609
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  3.25
Weight (g):  9.19
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 4516.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Phocas facing, bearded, wearing 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: ∂ N F … RP AV (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO ϚI (Year 7). Mint mark: CON. Control mark: … (Untranslatable control mark).

Bibliography:  MIB II 61a

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Whitting, Philip David
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