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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
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