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ID number: BIRBI-B2622 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Phocas; Antioch Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 610 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.75 Weight (g): 10.19 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 3105. G. De Falco, Naples, 1956. |
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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 eagle-topped sceptre in l. hand. Reverse: Arched M; cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D [in retrograde] N FOCA NЄPЄ A … (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO ϚIII (Year 9). Mint mark: τHCUP'.
Bibliography: MIB II 84a
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