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ID number: BIRBI-B2534 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): 5.43 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3005. |
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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. Reverse: XX; star above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ N FOCA … (Our lord Phocas). Reverse: None. Mint mark: CO … Control mark: … (Untranslatable control mark).
Bibliography: MIB II 65b
Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype a half-follis of Maurice, uncertain date and mint.
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