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ID number: BIRBI-B3473 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; Seleukeia-in-Isauria Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Mersin, Silifke Culture: Byzantine Date made: 615-616 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.1 Weight (g): 9.78 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 4952. Dorothy Wood, Konya, 5th July 1965. |
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Description: Obverse: To the l., bust of Herakleios facing, bearded, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown. To the r., bust of Constantine III facing, smaller, unbearded, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown. A cross between their heads. Reverse: M, chrismon above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ᴜ NN hЄPԉ [in retrograde]CLIЧS Єτ hЄ (Our lords Herakleios and Herakleios). Reverse: AN … O IIIIII (Year 6). Mint mark: SЄ … S … Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB III 192
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