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ID number: BIRBI-B2623 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Phocas; Antioch Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 610 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.95 Weight (g): 9.79 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2997. Spink, August 1955. |

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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 globus cruciger in l. hand. Reverse: Arched M; cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … FOЄΔ NЄPЄ AV ([Inferred] Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO ϚIII (Year 9). Mint mark: τHЄUP'.
Bibliography: MIB II 84b
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