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ID number: BIRBI-B2571 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Phocas; Nikomedia Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Eurasia: Izmit Culture: Byzantine Date made: 603-604 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.55 Weight (g): 5.98 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4499. B.A. Seaby, June 1951. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Phocas facing, bearded, wearing crown, chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding mappa aloft in r. hand, and cross-topped sceptre in l. hand. Reverse: XX; cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ … ЄRP … (Our lord, eternal). Reverse: [Year] II ([Year] 2). Mint mark: NIK … Control mark: … (Untranslatable control mark).
Bibliography: MIB II 73a
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