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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B3203
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.; Stewart, James R.
Maker:  Herakleios I; Constantine III; Eudokia Epiphania; Constantinople
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  624-625
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.5
Weight (g):  6.02
Axis (degrees):  0.00
Provenance:  Whitting 5670. 30th January 1968; ex James R. Stewart Collection; ex Kolocasides, April 1947.
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Description:  Obverse: To the l., Eudokia Epiphania facing, standing, smaller, wearing chlamys, and crown with pendilia. 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. Reverse: M. Monogram of Herakleios in the l. of the field.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: None. Reverse: … NNO XЧ (Year 15). Mint mark: … ON. Control mark: Δ (4).

Bibliography:  MIB III 162a

Notes:  Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype a year five coin of Phokas, of uncertain mint and denomination.

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Stewart, James R.
Australian
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Whitting, Philip David
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Constantinople
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Herakleios I
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Constantine III
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