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ID number: BIRBI-B2544 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Phocas; Thessalonica Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 602-603 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.25 Weight (g): 5.93 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4488. A.H. Baldwin, March 1949. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Phocas facing, bearded, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and cross topped crown with pendilia; holding globus cruciger in r.hand. Reverse: K; cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: O m FOCA ЄRP AVC (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO I (Year 1). Mint mark: TЄS.
Bibliography: MIB II 92
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