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ID number: BIRBI-B2606 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: 602-610 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.5 Weight (g): 8.17 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 4799. Karageorghiou, August 1964. |

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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: Too corroded to be visible.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ N FOCAS PЄRP AVC (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: None. Mint mark: … Z. Control mark: … (Untranslatable control mark).
Bibliography: MIB II 79-80
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