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ID number:  BIRBI-B3959
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.; Stewart, James R.
Maker:  Constans II; Constantinople
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  643-644
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.65
Weight (g):  5.41
Axis (degrees):  0.00
Provenance:  Whitting 1688. 30th January 1968; ex James R. Stewart Collection.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Constans II facing, unbearded, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: M, cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: Ih PЄR COhST (Emperor Constantine). Reverse: … NA … (Renewal). Year: III (Year 3). Control mark: Γ (3).

Bibliography:  MIB III 166

Notes:  Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype a year twenty six, Constantinopolitan follis of Herakleios and Constantine III.

4 Related People

Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


Stewart, James R.
Australian
03 Jul 1913
06 Feb 1962
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Whitting, Philip David
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1903
1988
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