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ID number: BIRBI-B2580 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: 608-609 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.65 Weight (g): 7.37 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4498. Glendining, 3rd May 1951. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Phocas facing, bearded, wearing cross topped crown, chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding cross-topped sceptre in l. hand. Reverse: XX; a star in the l. of the field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … FOCA PЄRP A … (Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: [Year] ЧII ([Year] 7). Mint mark: NIKO. Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB II 73b
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