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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B2532 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Phocas; Constantinople Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 603-609 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.55 Weight (g): 5.49 Axis (degrees): 270.00 Provenance: Whitting 4519. B. Kent, Lewes, January 1951. |
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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: XX; star above. Inscriptions: Obverse: … N … AS PЄRP … V (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: None. Mint mark: CON. Control mark: Δ (4). Bibliography: MIB II 65b Notes: Overstruck obverse on obverse; undertype unclear. |
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| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Phocas Byzantine c.547 610 | |
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