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ID number: BIRBI-B2564 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): 3.15 Weight (g): 10.90 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5607. Tchalikian, January 1968. |
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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 globus cruciger in l. hand. Reverse: XXXX.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ m FOCA … (Our lord Phocas). Reverse: ANNO Ϛ (Year 6). Mint mark: NIKO. Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB II 69b
Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype unclear.
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