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ID number: BIRBI-B2552 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Phocas; Leontia; Nikomedia Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Izmit Culture: Byzantine Date made: 602-603 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.00 Weight (g): 11.85 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0294. |

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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 with pendilia, and holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Cross in between the head of Phocas and Leontia. Reverse: Arched M; cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … N FO … INPЄR AVC (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO I (Year 1). Mint mark: NIKO. Control mark: B (2).
Bibliography: MIB II 68
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