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ID number: BIRBI-B3067 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: 635-637 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 2.25 Weight (g): 4.19 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0531. A.H. Baldwin, January 1951. |

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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, 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; base of cross forked. Monogram of Herakleios in the r. of the field; and I in the l. of the field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: 9 N ЧЄRACIIЧ Є … ([Inferred] Our lords Herakleios and). Reverse: ∂ЄЧS A∂IЧτ … R … (God help the Romans).
Bibliography: MIB III 144
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