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ID number: BIRBI-B2557 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: 606-607 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.15 Weight (g): 11.68 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0475. R.M. Cunningham, February 1951. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Phocas facing, bearded, wearing cross topped 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 PЄR AVS (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO Ч (Year 5). Mint mark: NIKO. Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB II 69b
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