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ID number: BIRBI-B2715 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Herakleios the Elder; Herakleios; Alexandretta Denomination: Follis Place made: İskenderun Culture: Byzantine Date made: 610 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.88 Weight (g): 9.64 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0543. R.M. Cunningham, February 1951. |

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Description: Obverse: Busts of Herakleios and Herakleios the Elder, facing, bearded, bareheaded, wearing chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders. A cross in between their heads. Reverse: M; cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ m HЄRACL … ULII (Our lords Herakleios, consuls). Reverse: ANNO XIIII ([Indiction] Year 14). Mint mark: AΛЄΞ … Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB II 16a
Notes: Hahn assigns this coin to Alexandria, but we have preferred the DOC attribution, because of the denomination problem.
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