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ID number: BIRBI-B3613 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Herakleios the Elder; Herakleios I; Carthage Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Carthage Culture: Byzantine Date made: 608-610 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.25 Weight (g): 8.72 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4403. Glendining, 3rd May 1951. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Herakleios the Elder or Herakleios facing, unbearded, wearing chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding eagle-topped sceptre in r. hand; a cross above his head. Reverse: XX; a pellet between the numerals, and a cross above. A star in the l. of the field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … CON … λ [in retrograde] I (Consul). Reverse: None. Mint mark: KRTG. Control mark: Є (5).
Bibliography: MIB II 12b
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