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ID number:  BIRBI-B3137
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.; Stewart, James R.
Maker:  Herakleios I; Constantine III; Constantinople
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  613-614
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  3.25
Weight (g):  12.22
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 5669. 30th January 1968; ex James R. Stewart Collection. Ex Kolocasides, Nicosia; presented April 1947.
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Description:  Obverse: To the l., Herakleios facing, standing, wearing chlamys, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. To the r., Constantine III facing, standing, smaller, unbearded, wearing chlamys, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: M.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: … Sτ … (Constantine). Reverse: ANN … IIII (Year 4). Mint mark: … (Untranslatable mint mark). Control mark: … (Untranslatable control mark).

Bibliography:  MIB III 160

Notes:  Overstruck obverse on obverse; undertype a Kyzikos coin of Phokas and Leontia, control mark: B (2).

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