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ID number: BIRBI-B2573 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: 604-605 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.45 Weight (g): 6.04 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4497. Hall Sale, November 1950. |
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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: XX; cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ m FO … ЄRP AVC (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: [Year] III ([Year] 3). Mint mark: NIKO. Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB II 73a
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