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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B3644
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Herakleios I; Justinian I; Sicily; Constantinople
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Europe: Italy, Sicily; Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  616-629; 546-547
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  3.4
Weight (g):  14.47
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting Unnumbered. Spink, February 1951.
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Description:  Obverse: (Original) Bust of Justinian I facing, wearing cuirass, and helmet with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and shield on l. arm. A cross in the r. of the field. (Countermark) Bust of Herakleios facing, bearded, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and crown; monogram of Herakleios to the r. Reverse: (Original) M; cross above. (Countermark) None.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: (Original) … N IVSTIN … NVS … AC (Our lord Justinian, Augustus). (Countermark) None. Reverse: (Original) ANNO XX (Year 20). Mint mark: None visible. Control mark: … (Untranslatable control mark). (Countermark) None. Mint mark: SCLs.

Bibliography:  (Original) MIB I 95a; (Countermark) MIB III Km.4

5 Related People

Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


Justinian I
Byzantine
c.482
14th November 565
Whitting_Phillip-T.jpg
Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Sicily
Roman;Ostrogothic;Italian;Aghlabid;Norman;Sicilian


Herakleios I
Byzantine
c.575
641
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