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ID number: BIRBI-B2642 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): 1.92 Weight (g): 2.50 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 4021. Spink, February 1962. |
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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: C N FOCA NЄPЄ AV (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO ЧIII (Year 8). Mint mark: Q.
Bibliography: MIB II 88
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