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ID number: BIRBI-B2526 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: 602-610 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.50 Weight (g): 11.86 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4517. |
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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 FOCA … AV (Our lord Phocas, Augustus). Reverse: ANNO … (Year). Mint mark: … ON. Control mark: Γ (3).
Bibliography: MIB II 61a
Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype a Maurice coin overstruck, obverse on obverse, on a Tiberius II coin.
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