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ID number: BIRBI-B2543 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Phocas; Thessalonica Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 605-606 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.05 Weight (g): 11.35 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4487. R.M. Cunningham, February 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: XXXX.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D m FOCA PЄRP AVC (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO IIII (Year 4). Mint mark: TЄS.
Bibliography: MIB II 91
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