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ID number: BIRBI-B2565 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: 608-609 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.15 Weight (g): 12.27 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4774. Karageorghiou, 29th August 1964. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Phocas facing, bearded, wearing cross topped crown, chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding mappa aloft in r. hand, and cross-topped sceptre in l. hand. Reverse: XXXX.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … OCΔ PЄR … (Phocas, eternal). Reverse: … NO ЧII (Year 7). Mint mark: NIKO. Control mark: B (2).
Bibliography: MIB II 69b
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