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ID number:  BIRBI-B3198
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.; Byblos Hoard
Maker:  Herakleios I; Constantine III; Eudokia Epiphania; Constantinople
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  615-616
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.95
Weight (g):  8.01
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 8206. A.H. Baldwin, July 1979; "From Byblos".
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Description:  Obverse: To the l., Eudokia Epiphania facing, standing, smaller, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown, with semicircular-topped plaques and pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. In the centre, Herakleios facing, standing, bearded, wearing chlamys, and crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. To the r., Constantine III facing, standing, smaller, unbearded, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: M, cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: None. Reverse: … NNO Ϛ (Year 6). Mint mark: CO … Control mark: A (1).

Bibliography:  MIB III 161

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Constantine III
Byzantine
612
641
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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Herakleios I
Byzantine
c.575
641
Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


Eudokia Epiphania
Byzantine
611

Byblos Hoard



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