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ID number: BIRBI-B2796 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Herakleios; Constantinople Denomination: Nomisma Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 613-625 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.05 Weight (g): 4.47 Axis (degrees): 225.00 Provenance: Whitting 0120. L. S. Forrer, November 1951, 'from a Jerusalem garden'. |

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Description: Obverse: Facing bust of Herakleios, l., with short beard, wearing cross crown and chlamys, with smaller facing bust of Herakleios Constantine r., beardless with cross crown and chlamys, cross above. Reverse: Cross potent on base and three steps.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ddNN hЄRACLIUS Єτ hЄPA CoNSτ PPAV (Our lords Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine Emperors in perpetuity). Reverse: VICTORIA AVҀЧ (Imperial Victory). Control Mark: Є (5). Mint Mark: CONOB.
Bibliography: DOC II.1 pl. VIII AV8j.2, MIB 3 pl. 1 8a.4
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