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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B2669
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Phocas; Carthage
Denomination:  Half-Follis
Place made:  Carthage
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  602-603
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  1.94
Weight (g):  6.40
Axis (degrees):  90.00
Provenance:  Whitting 4471. Spink, June 1948.
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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. Reverse: Cross potent; a pellet to the l. and r. Below the cross, XX; a pellet to the l. and r.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: D N FOCA PЄRP (Our lord Phocas, eternal). Indiction year: AN S (Year 602-603). Reverse: F O/C A (Phocas).

Bibliography:  MIB II 97

3 Related People

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


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