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ID number: BIRBI-B2561 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: 607-608 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.10 Weight (g): 13.78 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4507. B.A. Seaby, May 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 eagle-topped sceptre in l. hand. Reverse: XXXX.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ m FOCA … (Our lord Phocas). Reverse: ANNO ЧI (Year 6). Mint mark: NIKO. Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB II 69a
Notes: Pierced obverse to reverse, at top of obverse. Slight doublestrike on reverse.
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