Coin Item Number: 3095/823 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Byzantine coin of Phocas, 602-610. Obverse: bust of Phocas, facing front, with crown and consular robes; to left, he holds a mappa; to right, he holds a cross; to left, inscription says ‘DMFOC’; to right, it is illegible. Reverse: large ‘XX’; to right, ‘II’; in exergue, ‘NIKO’.

History Of Use

"Half-Follis" (denomination); DO# 63; Sear# 663.