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ID number: BIRBI-B2588 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: 607-608 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.8 Weight (g): 10.67 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1995. |
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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: O N FOCAS P … R … (Our lord Phocas, eternal). Reverse: ANNO Ϛ (Year 6). Mint mark: KYZ. Control mark: B (2).
Bibliography: MIB II 76
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