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ID number: BIRBI-B3252 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: 629-634 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.1 Weight (g): 11.34 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2040. Hall sale, November 1950. |

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Description: Obverse: To the l., Herakleios facing, standing, with moustache and long beard, wearing military attire and crown, holding a cross-topped sceptre in r. hand. To the r., Constantine III facing, standing, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. A cross between their heads. Reverse: M, cross on a crescent above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: None. Reverse: … NNO … ([Inferred] Year 20-24). Mint mark: CON. Control mark: Δ (4).
Bibliography: MIB III 164b
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