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ID number:  BIRBI-B3138
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:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  613-614
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  3.05
Weight (g):  12.38
Axis (degrees):  0.00
Provenance:  Whitting 2687. A.H. Baldwin, November 1952.
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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, and crown with pendilia. Reverse: M.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: … ЄRAC … Sτ P … (Herakleios and Herakleios Constantine, eternal). Reverse: …. IIII ([Inferred] Year 4). Mint mark: … N. Control mark: Є (5).

Bibliography:  MIB III 160

Notes:  Overstruck obverse on obverse; undertype a year 8, Nikomedia follis of Justin II and Sophia.

4 Related People

Herakleios I
Byzantine
c.575
641
Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


Constantine III
Byzantine
612
641
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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
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