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ID number: BIRBI-B2635 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Stewart, James R. Maker: Phocas; Leontia; Antioch Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Eurasia: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 607-608 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.26 Weight (g): 4.43 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5720. 30th January 1968; ex. James R. Stewart Collection, Nicosia, 1947. |

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Description: Obverse: Phocas and Leontia, standing, nimbate; Leontia wearing 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: XX; a pellet in between the numerals, and a cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D [in retrograde] N FOCA NЄPЄ AV (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO ЧI (Year 6). Mint mark: P, with tail.
Bibliography: MIB II 85
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