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ID number:  BIRBI-B2598
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Phocas; Leontia; Kyzikos
Denomination:  Half-Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Mysia, Kyzikos
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  602-603
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.4
Weight (g):  6.59
Axis (degrees):  0.00
Provenance:  Whitting 3131. Spink, February 1957; "From Cyprus".
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Description:  Obverse: Phocas and Leontia, standing, nimbate; Leontia wearing a trefoil crown, and holding a cross sceptre in l. hand, Phocas wearing a crown with pendilia, and holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Cross in between the head of Phocas and Leontia. Reverse: XX; cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: … m FOC A PP … (Our lord Phocas, eternal). Reverse: None. Mint mark: KYZ. Control mark: A (1).

Bibliography:  MIB II 78

4 Related People

Phocas
Byzantine
c.547
610
Whitting_Phillip-T.jpg
Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Leontia
Byzantine


Kyzikos
Roman; Byzantine


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