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ID number:  BIRBI-B3405
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; Nikomedia
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Izmit
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  612-614
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  3.25
Weight (g):  13.33
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 3983. "From Asia Minor c. 1910".
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Description:  Obverse: To the l., Herakleios facing, standing, bearded, wearing chlamys and crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. To the r., Constantine III facing, standing, smaller, unbearded, wearing chlamys and crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: M, cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: … Єτ h … (and Herakleios). Reverse: ANNO II … ([Inferred] Year 3-4). Mint mark: NIKO. Control mark: A (1).

Bibliography:  MIB III 175a

Notes:  Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype a Nikomedia coin of uncertain emperor, year, and denomination.

4 Related People

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


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