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ID number: BIRBI-B3374 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: Half-Follis Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 619-620 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.1 Weight (g): 3.52 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1626. |

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Description: Obverse: To the r., Constantine III facing, standing, smaller, unbearded, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: K.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … IЧS PP AVC (Herakleios, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO X (Year 10). Mint mark: … Є …
Bibliography: MIB III 228
Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype a coin of Herakleios of uncertain mint, year, and denomination. Clipped on two sides as though flan cut out from much larger coin.
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