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ID number: BIRBI-B3090 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: 616-617 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.90 Weight (g): 10.37 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0643. Glendining, 3rd May 1951. |

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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: ∂ N hRA CLI P … (Our lord Herakleios, eternal). Reverse: ANNO ϚI (Year 7). Mint mark: CON. Control mark: Δ (4).
Bibliography: MIB III 158
Notes: Clipped on three sides.
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