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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B2592 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): 3.55 Weight (g): 11.02 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1652. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Phocas facing, bearded, wearing 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 Ϛ (Year 6). Mint mark: KYZ. Control mark: B (2). Bibliography: MIB II 76 Notes: Overstruck obverse on obverse; undertype a coin of Kyzikos, of uncertain emperor and date. |
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| Kyzikos Roman; Byzantine | |
| Phocas Byzantine c.547 610 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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