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ID number: BIRBI-B2639 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: Decanummium Place made: Eurasia: Antioch Culture: Byzantine Date made: 607-608 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.7 Weight (g): 2.23 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2776. |
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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: X; cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: O N FO NЄPЄ (Our lord Phocas, eternal). Reverse: ANN … ЧI (Year 6). Mint mark: Q.
Bibliography: MIB II 87
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