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ID number: BIRBI-B3078 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Herakleios I; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 611-612 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.30 Weight (g): 10.16 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5600. I.M. Hanson, November 1967, Istanbul. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Herakleios facing, bearded, wearing cuirass, and cross-topped crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … N hRACL I PЄRP A … (Our lord Herakleios, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO II (Year 2). Mint mark: CON. Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB III 158
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