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ID number: BIRBI-B3320 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Herakleios I; Constantinople Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 611-612 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.35 Weight (g): 4.51 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5170. Spink, February 1966 (Weller). |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Herakleios facing, bearded, wearing cuirass, and plumed helmet with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: K, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: UU hЄ … IЧS PP AV (Our lord Herakleios, eternal Augustus). Reverse: A … II (Year 2). Control mark: B (2).
Bibliography: MIB III 169a
Notes: Clipped on two sides as though flan cut out from much larger coin.
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