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ID number: BIRBI-B3080 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): 10.80 Axis (degrees): 270.00 Provenance: Whitting 2260. Rome, March 1953; ex Signorelli Collection. |

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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 on l. arm. Reverse: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … RACLIS PЄR … (Herakleios, eternal). Reverse: ANN … II (Year 2). Mint mark: CON. Control mark: Γ (3).
Bibliography: MIB III 158
Notes: Overstruck obverse on obverse; undertype a half-follis of 498 to 537, of the Constantinopolitan mint. Clipped on three sides.
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