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ID number: BIRBI-B2547 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Phocas; Leontia; Thessalonica Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 604-605 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.30 Weight (g): 4.94 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4465. |

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Description: Obverse: Phocas and Leontia, standing, nimbate; Leontia wearing a trefoil crown, and holding a cross sceptre in l. hand, Phocas wearing a crown, and holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Cross in between the head of Phocas and Leontia. Reverse: XX; cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: O N FOCA ЄRP AVC (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: None. Mint mark: TЄS.
Bibliography: MIB II 94
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