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ID number: BIRBI-B3491 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; Seleukeia-in-Isauria Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Mersin, Silifke Culture: Byzantine Date made: 616-617 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.1 Weight (g): 10.74 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 4957. Dorothy Wood, Konya, 5th July 1965. |
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Description: Obverse: To the l., Herakleios facing, standing, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. To the r., Constantine III facing, standing, smaller, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. A cross between their heads. Reverse: M, chrismon above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: II U … SAC INЧS h C … OC (Garbled Inscription). Reverse: ANNO ϚI (Year 7). Mint mark: SЄLISЧ. Control mark: Є (5).
Bibliography: MIB III 193
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