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ID number: BIRBI-B2603 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Phocas; Kyzikos Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Eurasia: Mysia, Kyzikos Culture: Byzantine Date made: 603-604 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.3 Weight (g): 5.69 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 4494. Hall Sale, November 1950. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Phocas facing, bearded, wearing cross topped crown with pendilia, chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding mappa aloft in r. hand, and cross-topped sceptre in l. hand. Reverse: XX; cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: O N FOC … PЄRP A (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: [Year] II ([Year] 2). Mint mark: KYZ. Control mark: B (2).
Bibliography: MIB II 79
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