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ID number: BIRBI-B3004 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Athens Hoard Maker: Herakleios I; Constantinople Denomination: Semissis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 610-613 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2 Weight (g): 2.19 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0575. A.H. Baldwin, September 1956; "From a recent find near Athens". |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Herakleios, unbearded, facing r., wearing diadem, paludamentum, and cuirass. Reverse: Cross potent on a globe.
Inscriptions: Obverse: d N hЄRACLI ЧS PP AVC (Our lord Herakleios, eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTORIA AVGЧ (Imperial victory).
Bibliography: MIB III 71b
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