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ID number: BIRBI-B4562ADD Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Maker: Phocas; Leontia Denomination: Fals Culture: Arabic Date made: c.640-c.680 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.25 Weight (g): 10.28 Axis (degrees): 315.00 |
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Description: Obverse: Two standing figures, facing, wearing crude loros and crowns with cross, both holding cross. Reverse: Cross above denomination mark.
Inscriptions: Obverse: DИV…OΓИOO (Blundered) Reverse: M (Forty) NIK (Nikomedia) Officina: Δ, اما ('amman ?)
Notes: Overstruck on coin of Phocas, possibly from Cyzicus, MIB.2.76?; Possible mint mark of 'Amman(?)
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