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ID number: BIRBI-B2586 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Phocas; Kyzikos Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Mysia, Kyzikos Culture: Byzantine Date made: 605-606 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.45 Weight (g): 11.25 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 4491. 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 mappa aloft in r. hand, and cross-topped sceptre in l. hand. A cross in the l. of the field. Reverse: XXXX.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ N FOCAS PЄRP AVC (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO IIII (Year 4). Mint mark: KYZ. Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB II 76
Notes: Overstruck obverse on obverse; undertype a coin of Tiberius II, of uncertain date and mint.
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