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ID number: BIRBI-B2841 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Herakleios I; Constantine III; Constantinople Denomination: Solidus Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 625-629 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2 Weight (g): 4.48 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0146. Glendining, 21st April 1950. |

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Description: Obverse: To the l., bust of Herakleios facing, bearded, wearing chlamys with fibula, and cross-topped diadem. To the r., bust of Constantine III facing, bearded, wearing chlamys with fibula, and cross-topped diadem. A cross in between the heads of Herakleios and Constantine III. Reverse: Cross potent on three steps.
Inscriptions: Obverse: dd NN hЄRA … τ hЄRA CONSτ PP AV (Our lords Herakleios and Herakleios Constantine, eternal Augusti). Reverse: VICTORIA AVSЧ (Imperial victory). Mint mark: CONOB. Control mark: Γ (3).
Bibliography: MIB III 21
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