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ID number: BIRBI-B3335 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; Constantinople Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 629-630 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.3 Weight (g): 5.32 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2939. A.H. Baldwin, 2nd May 1955. |

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Description: Obverse: To the l., Herakleios facing, standing, with moustache and long beard, wearing military attire, holding sceptre in r. hand. To the r., Constantine III facing, standing, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown. A monogram of Herakleios in the l. of the field. Reverse: K.
Inscriptions: Obverse: None. Reverse: ANN … XX (Year 20). Control mark: … (Untranslatable control mark).
Bibliography: MIB III 171
Notes: Overstruck obverse on obverse; undertype a Constantinopolitan follis of Herakleios and Constantine III.
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