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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B3049
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Herakleios I; Constantine III; Constantinople
Denomination:  Miliarense
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  613-629
Metal:  Silver
Diameter (cm):  2.25
Weight (g):  4.08
Axis (degrees):  180.00
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Description:  Obverse: To the l., Herakleios facing, standing, bearded, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and cross-topped crown, holding in r. hand a cross-topped sceptre, and in l. hand a globe surmounted with Victoria - Nike, facing Herakleios and crowning him with a wreath. To the r., Constantine III facing, standing, unbearded, and smaller, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: Cross potent above a globe and three steps, between two palm branches.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: … NN HЄRAC LIЧS Єτ hЄRA CONSτ PP AV (Our lords Herakleios and Herakleios Constantine, eternal Augusti). Reverse: None.

Bibliography:  MIB III 129

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Constantine III
Byzantine
612
641
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1903
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Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


Herakleios I
Byzantine
c.575
641
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