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ID number: BIRBI-B2668 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Phocas; Carthage Denomination: One Third Siliqua Place made: Carthage Culture: Byzantine Date made: 602-607 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 1.31 Weight (g): 0.63 Axis (degrees): 90.00 Provenance: Whitting 4559. L.S. Forrer, July 1949. |
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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 cross-topped sceptre in l. hand. Reverse: A cross; A in the lower l. of the field, ω in the lower r. of the field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D N FOCA … (Our lord Phocas). Reverse: None.
Bibliography: MIB II 56
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