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ID number:  BIRBI-B3180
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; Eudokia Epiphania; Constantinople
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  616-617
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  3.05
Weight (g):  8.14
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 2506. A.H. Baldwin, August 1952.
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Description:  Obverse: To the l., Eudokia Epiphania facing, standing, smaller, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown, with semicircular-topped plaques and pendilia, holding globus in r. hand. In the centre, Herakleios facing, standing, bearded, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. To the r., Constantine III facing, standing, smaller, unbearded, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. A cross between the heads of Herakleios and Eudokia Epiphania. Reverse: M, cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: None. Reverse: ANNO ϚI (Year 7). Mint mark: CON. Control mark: B (2).

Bibliography:  MIB III 161

5 Related People

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


Eudokia Epiphania
Byzantine
611

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