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ID number: BIRBI-B2697 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Phocas; Rome Denomination: Decanummium Place made: Europe: Italy, Rome Culture: Byzantine Date made: 602-606 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.51 Weight (g): 2.38 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 3156. Glendining, March 1957. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Phocas facing, bearded, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: X.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D N FO … RP AVC (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: None.
Bibliography: MIB II 108
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