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ID number: BIRBI-B3480 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: 615-617 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3 Weight (g): 9.03 Axis (degrees): 90.00 Provenance: Whitting 4954. 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. Reverse: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … CLIЧ … Є … (Herakleios and). Reverse: … N … ([Inferred] Year 6-7). Mint mark: … ЄLISЧ. Control mark: Δ (4).
Bibliography: MIB III 192
Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype an Antioch coin of an emperor, possibly Maurice.
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