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ID number:  BIRBI-B2536
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Phocas; Constantinople
Denomination:  Decanummium
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  603-609
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.05
Weight (g):  3.32
Axis (degrees):  0.00
Provenance:  Whitting 4481.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Phocas facing, bearded, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and crown. Reverse: X; cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: ר FOC A PЄR … ([Inferred] Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: None.

Bibliography:  MIB II 66

Notes:  Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype a coin of Maurice.

3 Related People

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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


Phocas
Byzantine
c.547
610
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