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ID number:  BIRBI-B3315
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:  30 Nummi
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  629-630
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.45
Weight (g):  4.71
Axis (degrees):  0.00
Provenance:  Whitting 2046. B.A. Seaby, March 1951.
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Description:  Obverse: To the l., Herakleios facing, standing, wearing military attire, holding sceptre in r. hand. To the r., Constantine III facing, standing, bearded, wearing chlamys and crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: Λ.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: None. Reverse: ANN … XX (Year 20). Mint mark: … ON. Control mark: A (1).

Bibliography:  MIB III 168a

Notes:  Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype possibly a year twenty-five, Constantinopolitan follis of Herakleios and Constantine III, with ϴ above the M on the reverse.

4 Related People

Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


Herakleios I
Byzantine
c.575
641
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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Constantine III
Byzantine
612
641
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