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ID number:  BIRBI-B2615
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Phocas; Leontia; Antioch
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Antioch
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  605-606
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.8
Weight (g):  10.96
Axis (degrees):  0.00
Provenance:  Whitting 4459. A.H. Baldwin, June 1951.
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Description:  Obverse: Phocas and Leontia, standing, nimbate; Leontia wearing a cross topped crown, and holding a cross sceptre in l. hand, Phocas wearing a cross topped crown with pendilia, and holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Cross in between the head of Phocas and Leontia. Reverse: Arched M; cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: D [in retrograde] N FOCA NЄPЄ AV (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO IIII (Year 4). Mint mark: τHЄUP'.

Bibliography:  MIB II 83a

4 Related People

Phocas
Byzantine
c.547
610
Antioch



Leontia
Byzantine


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
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