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ID number: BIRBI-B2579 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: 607-608 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.25 Weight (g): 6.00 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4501. |

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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: ᴅ N FOCA PЄR AVS (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: [Year] Ϛ ([Year] 6). Mint mark: NIKO. Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB II 73a
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