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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.
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