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ID number: BIRBI-B3267 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Herakleios I; Constantine III; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 631-632 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.95 Weight (g): 5.15 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0576. B.A. Seaby, February 1951. |
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Description: Obverse: To the l., Herakleios facing, standing, wearing military attire. To the r., Constantine III facing, standing, wearing chlamys and crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: None. Reverse: AN … XXII (Year 22). Mint mark: … (Untranslatable mint mark). Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB III 164a
Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertpe a coin of Phokas, of uncertain denomination, mint, and year.
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