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ID number:  BIRBI-B3456
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Herakleios I; Kyzikos
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Mysia, Kyzikos
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  612-614
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  3.25
Weight (g):  11.07
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting Unnumbered.
BIRBI-B3456.jpg

Description:  Obverse: Bust of Herakleios facing, bearded, wearing cuirass, and helmet with plume and pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: M, cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: … ACLI PЄRP … V (Herakleios, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO III … ([Inferred] Year 3-4). Mint mark: KVZ. Control mark: A (1).

Bibliography:  MIB III 184

Notes:  Possible overstrike; undertype unclear.

3 Related People

Herakleios I
Byzantine
c.575
641
Whitting_Phillip-T.jpg
Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Kyzikos
Roman; Byzantine


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