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ID number: BIRBI-B2578 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: 606-607 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.35 Weight (g): 5.57 Axis (degrees): 270.00 Provenance: Whitting 6579. Tchalikian, 25th January 1969. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Phocas facing, bearded, wearing crown with pendilia, 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: … N FOC … AVS (Our lord Phocas, Augustus). Reverse: [Year] Ч ([Year] 5). Mint mark: NIKO. Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB II 73a
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