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ID number: BIRBI-B3256 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): 2.95 Weight (g): 9.01 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2043. |
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Description: Obverse: To the l., Herakleios facing, standing, wearing military attire. To the r., Constantine III facing, standing, wearing chlamys. Reverse: M, cross on a cresecent above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: None. Reverse: ANNO … ([Inferred] Year 20-24). Mint mark: CO … Control mark: Δ (4).
Bibliography: MIB III 164b
Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype a Thessalonica follis of Herakleios, Eudokia Epiphania, and Constantine III, of uncertain date.
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