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ID number:  BIRBI-B3495
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; Isauria
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Isauria
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  617-618
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  3
Weight (g):  11.65
Axis (degrees):  0.00
Provenance:  Whitting 1241. Ex Geoffrey Haines Collection, no. 2282, 20th September 1964; previously A.H. Baldwin, 1943.
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Description:  Obverse: To the l., bust of Herakleios facing, bearded, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown. To the r., bust of Constantine III facing, smaller, unbearded, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown. Reverse: M, cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: O N hЄRACL Є hRA (Our lords Herakleios and Herakleios). Reverse: ANN … ϚII (Year 8). Mint mark: ISAV … Control mark: A (1).

Bibliography:  MIB III 196

Notes:  Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype unclear.

4 Related People

Constantine III
Byzantine
612
641
Herakleios I
Byzantine
c.575
641
Isauria



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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
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