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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B3149
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:  614-615
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  3.4
Weight (g):  11.02
Axis (degrees):  0.00
Provenance:  Whitting 0626.
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Description:  Obverse: To the l., Herakleios facing, standing, wearing chlamys, and crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. To the r., Constantine III facing, standing, smaller, unbearded, wearing chlamys. Between their heads, a cross. Reverse: M, chrismon above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: .. NN hЄRA … ЄRA C … (Our lords Herakleios and Herakleios Constantine). Reverse: ANNO Ч (Year 5). Mint mark: … (Untranslatable mint mark). Control mark: Γ (3).

Bibliography:  MIB III 160b

4 Related People

Constantine III
Byzantine
612
641
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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Herakleios I
Byzantine
c.575
641
Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


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