Online Collections at UoB - Objects
Go to the Advanced Search
Viewing Record 1 of 1 


Numismatics

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.
BIRBI-B3613.jpg

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

4 Related People

Whitting_Phillip-T.jpg
Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Herakleios the Elder
Byzantine or Armenian

610
Herakleios I
Byzantine
c.575
641
Carthage
Roman;Byzantine


Viewing Record 1 of 1