★ Rare ★

Phocas, with Leontia, 602-610. Half Follis (bronze, 3.84 g, 20 mm), uncertain northern Syrian mint, struck 615/616 under Persian rule. Phocas, holding globus cruciger, and Leontia, holding cruciform sceptre, standing facing; cross above. Rev. Large XX, Ϛ to left, N to right. H. Pottier, “Le monnayage de la Syrie sous l’occupation perse (610–630): Complément,” 460, no. 13a. Fine. Rare.