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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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Whitting, Philip David
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1903
1988
Antioch



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