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ID number:  BIRBI-B3139
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):  3.25
Weight (g):  12.41
Axis (degrees):  0.00
Provenance:  Whitting 0663. A.H. Baldwin, February 1950.
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Description:  Obverse: To the l., Herakleios facing, standing, wearing chlamys. To the r., Constantine III facing, standing, smaller, unbearded, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Between their heads, a cross. Reverse: M, chrismon above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: dd NN hЄ … τ hЄRA CONSτ … (Our lords Herakleios and Herakleios Constantine). Reverse: ANNO IIII (Year 4). Mint mark: CON. Control mark: Є (5).

Bibliography:  MIB III 160b

Notes:  Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype a Kyzikos coin of Justin II and Sophia.

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Herakleios I
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641
Constantinople
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