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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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3 Related People

Phocas
Byzantine
c.547
610
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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


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