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ID number:  BIRBI-B3263
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:  630-631
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.85
Weight (g):  9.45
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 0608.
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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, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: M, cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: None. Reverse: AN … XXI (Year 21). Mint mark: … O … Control mark: Δ (4).

Bibliography:  MIB III 164a

Notes:  Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype an Antioch coin, possibly of Tiberius II.

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