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ID number: BIRBI-B3164 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: 615-616 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.1 Weight (g): 9.29 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0631. |

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Description: Obverse: To the l., Herakleios facing, standing, wearing chlamys, and holding globus cruciger in r. hand. To the r., Constantine III facing, standing, smaller, unbearded, wearing chlamys, and holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: M.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … N hЄ … ONS … (Our lords Herakleios and Herakleios Constantine). Reverse: … NO Ϛ (Year 6). Mint mark: … ON. Control mark: … (Untranslatable control mark).
Bibliography: MIB III 160
Notes: Overstruck obverse on obverse; undertype a Nikomedia follis of Phokas, of uncertain date.
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