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ID number: BIRBI-B0129 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Anastasius I; Herakleios; Sicily Denomination: Follis Place made: Sicily Culture: Byzantine Date made: 498-518; 610-613 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 3.50 Weight (g): 17.80 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0664. A.H. Baldwin, January 1961. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Anastasius facing r. wearing diadem, curiass and paludamentum, with christogram on shoulder. Reverse: Cross above, star with pellets above and below in l. field and r. field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: DN AN[…] AVI (Our lord Anastasius, emperor in perpetuity). Reverse: M (40). Mint mark: SCLS. Control mark: Є(5).
Bibliography: DOC I. 23l; MIB I, 28b (For the Anastasian coin); DOC II.1 241a.2 (For the Herakleian countermark)
Notes: With Herakleian Sicilian countermark.
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