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ID number: BIRBI-B2593 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: 608-609 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.9 Weight (g): 9.51 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3330. A.H. Baldwin, December 1958. |
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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: O N FOCAS PЄRP AV … (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: … NNO ϚI (Year 7). Mint mark: KYZ. Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB II 76
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