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ID number: BIRBI-B2716 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: 609-610 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.08 Weight (g): 8.23 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4070. Spink, July 1963; ex T.E. Weller Collection, "From Turkey". |

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Description: Obverse: Busts of Herakleios and Herakleios the Elder, facing, bearded, wearing chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, and crown with pendilia. A cross in between their heads. Reverse: M; cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: d m HЄRΔCL … C … ULII (Our lords Herakleios, consuls). Reverse: ANNO XIII ([Indiction] Year 13). Mint mark: A … AN … Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB II 16b
Notes: Hahn assigns this coin to Alexandria, but we have preferred the DOC attribution, because of the denomination problem.
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