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ID number: BIRBI-B3330 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: Half-Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 629-630 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.65 Weight (g): 5.55 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4548. |

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Description: Obverse: To the l., Herakleios facing, standing, with moustache and long beard, wearing military attire and crown. To the r., Constantine III facing, standing, wearing chlamys and crown. A cross between their heads. Reverse: K, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: None. Reverse: AN … XX (Year 20). Control mark: … (Untranslatable control mark).
Bibliography: MIB III 171a
Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype a Kyzikos follis of Herakleios, Eudokia Epiphania, and Constantine III, possibly of year eleven.
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