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ID number:  BIRBI-B2641
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Phocas; Antioch
Denomination:  Decanummium
Place made:  Eurasia: Antioch
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  609-610
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  1.83
Weight (g):  2.13
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 2753.
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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: X; cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: O N FOCA … ЄP … A (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO ЧIII (Year 8). Mint mark: Q.

Bibliography:  MIB II 88

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Antioch



Phocas
Byzantine
c.547
610
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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
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