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ID number: BIRBI-B4525ADD 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; Thessalonica Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 630-631 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.85 Weight (g): 13.84 Axis (degrees): 225.00 Provenance: Whitting 5521, ex. Tchalikian, 8th July 1967. |
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Description: Obverse: To l. Herakleios, standing, with moustache and long beard, wearing military dress and crown with cross; holding long cross in r. hand, l. hand on hip; to r. Constantine III, standing, with short beard, wearing chlamys and crown with cross, globus cruciger in r. hand; cross between heads; K to r. of Constantine III. Reverse: None.
Inscriptions: Obverse: None. Reverse: M (Forty) ANNO XX (Year 20) Mint mark: ΘЄC (Thessalonica) Officina: A
Bibliography: MIB.3.222
Notes: Herakleian countermark on reverse at centre.
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