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ID number: BIRBI-B2725 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Italian Hoard Maker: Herakleios; Constantinople Denomination: Solidus Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 610-613 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.2 Weight (g): 4.43 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0965. Italian Hoard, December 1960. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Herakleios facing, bearded, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and cross-topped crown with plume and pendilia, holding a cross in r. hand. Reverse: Cross potent on two steps.
Inscriptions: Obverse: d N hЄRACL IЧS PP AC (Our lord Herakleios, eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTORIA AVCЧ (Imperial victory). Mint mark: CONOB. Control mark: Є (5).
Bibliography: MIB III 4
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