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ID number: BIRBI-B2636 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: Half-Follis Place made: Eurasia: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 607-608 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.39 Weight (g): 5.50 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 5350. Spink, July 1966; "From South East Turkey". |

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Description: Obverse: Phocas and Leontia, standing, nimbate; Leontia wearing trefoil topped crown, and holding a cross sceptre in l. hand, Phocas wearing a trefoil topped crown with pendilia, and holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Cross in between the head of Phocas and Leontia. Reverse: XX; cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D [in retrograde] N F OC N … A (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: A … O ЧI (Year 6). Mint mark: P, with tail.
Bibliography: MIB II 85
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