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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B2683
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Phocas; Carthage
Denomination:  Decanummium
Place made:  Carthage
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  605-608
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  1.91
Weight (g):  3.58
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Haines 2472. A.H. Baldwin, 1948.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Phocas facing, bearded, wearing cross topped crown, cuirass, and paludamentum. Reverse: X; cross above, star below. A pellet in the upper and lower l. of the field, and in the upper and lower r. of the field.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: D N FOCAS PЄRP AVC (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: N M (Nummi).

Bibliography:  MIB II 100

3 Related People

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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
British
1899
1981-09-14
Phocas
Byzantine
c.547
610
Carthage
Roman;Byzantine


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