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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
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