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ID number: BIRBI-B2625 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): 2.8 Weight (g): 10.24 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1021. |

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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 AV (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO ϚIII (Year 9). Mint mark: τHЄUP.
Bibliography: MIB II 84a
Notes: Slight doublestrike on the reverse.
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