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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B2709
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Herakleios the Elder; Herakleios; Carthage
Denomination:  Decanummium
Place made:  Carthage
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  608-610
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  1.62
Weight (g):  3.37
Axis (degrees):  270.00
Provenance:  Whitting 3218. A.H. Baldwin, December 1957.
BIRBI-B2709.jpg

Description:  Obverse: Bust of Herakleios the Elder or Herakleios facing, unbearded, wearing chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding eagle-topped sceptre in r. hand; cross above his head. Reverse: X; cross above, star below.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: ЄRΛCΛI O CONS … (Herakleios consul). Reverse: N M (Nummi).

Bibliography:  MIB II 13

4 Related People

Carthage
Roman;Byzantine


Herakleios the Elder
Byzantine or Armenian

610
Whitting_Phillip-T.jpg
Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Herakleios I
Byzantine
c.575
641
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