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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B3651 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; Sicily; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Italy, Sicily; Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 629-632; 630-631 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.1 Weight (g): 10.88 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3874. Ashmolean Museum, 16th January 1960. |
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Description: Obverse: (Original, uppermost layer) To the l., Herakleios facing, standing, with moustache and beard, wearing military attire, and cross-topped crown, holding a cross-topped sceptre in r. hand. To the r., Constantine III facing, standing, wearing chlamys, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. A monogram of Herakleios in the l. of the field. (Countermark) To the l., bust of Herakleios facing, bearded, wearing paludamentum, and cross-topped crown. To the r., bust of Constantine III facing, unbearded, wearing paludamentum, and cross-topped crown. A cross between their heads. Reverse: (Original, uppermost layer) M. (Countermark) None. Inscriptions: Obverse: (Original, uppermost layer) None. (Countermark) None. Reverse: (Original, uppermost layer) … NNO … XI ([Inferred] Year 21). Mint mark: … (Untranslatable mint mark). Control mark: A or Δ (1 or 4). (Countermark) None. Mint mark: SCLs. Bibliography: (Original, uppermost layer) MIB III 164; (Countermark) MIB III Km.5 Notes: Overstruck obverse on obverse; undertype a Nikomedia follis of Herakleios and Constantine III, of uncertain year. |
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5 Related People | |
| Herakleios I Byzantine c.575 641 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Constantine III Byzantine 612 641 | |
| Sicily Roman;Ostrogothic;Italian;Aghlabid;Norman;Sicilian | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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