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ID number: BIRBI-B2747 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Herakleios I; Constantinople Denomination: Solidus Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 610-613 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.15 Weight (g): 4.46 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1456. Strutgart, June 1965. |

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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 three steps; ligatured AV in the r. of the field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: d N hЄRACLI ЧS PP AVC (Our lord Herakleios, eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTORIA AVSЧ (Imperial victory). Mint mark: CONOB. Control mark: Є (5).
Bibliography: MIB III 6b
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