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ID number: BIRBI-B2620 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: 608-609 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.7 Weight (g): 9.79 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 5374. D. Sellwood, September 1966. |
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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 ЧII (Year 7). Mint mark: τHЄUP.
Bibliography: MIB II 83a
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