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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B2553 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Phocas; Nikomedia Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Izmit Culture: Byzantine Date made: 605-606 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.00 Weight (g): 9.96 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4505. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Phocas facing, bearded, wearing crown with pendilia, chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding mappa aloft in r. hand, and cross-topped sceptre in l. hand. Reverse: XXXX. Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ m FOCA … S (Our lord Phocas, Augustus). Reverse: … NNO IIII (Year 4). Mint mark: NIKO. Control mark: … (Untranslatable control mark). Bibliography: MIB II 69b Notes: Overstruck obverse on obverse; undertype a coin of Maurice, of uncertain date and mint. |
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3 Related People | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Phocas Byzantine c.547 610 | |
| Nikomedia Roman; Byzantine | |
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