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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B3055 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: Hexagram Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 615-625 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 2.80 Weight (g): 6.52 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5519. A.H. Baldwin, 21st June 1967. |
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Description: Obverse: To the l., Herakleios, bearded, wearing chlamys and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. To the r., Constantine III, unbearded, smaller, wearing chlamys and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Both seated on a double throne facing; and a cross between their heads. Reverse: Cross potent above a globe and three steps. I in the l. of the field. Inscriptions: Obverse: dd NN hЄRA … τ hRA CONSτ P … (Our lords Herakleios and Herakleios Constantine, eternal). Reverse: dЄЧS A … IЧτA ROMANIS (God help the Romans). Bibliography: MIB III 138 Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse, on a coin of the same type. Clipped to the upper right and right of obverse. |
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4 Related People | |
| Herakleios I Byzantine c.575 641 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Constantine III Byzantine 612 641 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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