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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B2673
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Phocas; Carthage
Denomination:  Half-Follis
Place made:  Carthage
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  606-607
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.17
Weight (g):  5.02
Axis (degrees):  90.00
Provenance:  Haines 735. Paris, Bank of Seine, 1957.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Phocas facing, bearded, wearing cross topped crown, chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding mappa aloft in r. hand, and cross-topped sceptre in l. hand. Reverse: XX; cross above, star to the l., and a pellet between the numerals.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: D N FOCA S PЄRP AVS (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: None. Mint mark: KRTG. Control mark: Є (5).

Bibliography:  MIB II 98a

3 Related People

Phocas
Byzantine
c.547
610
Carthage
Roman;Byzantine


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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
British
1899
1981-09-14
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