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ID number: BIRBI-B3334 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): 2.25 Weight (g): 4.14 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4545. |
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Description: Obverse: To the l., Herakleios facing, standing, with moustache and long beard, wearing military attire, holding sceptre in r. hand. To the r., Constantine III facing, standing, wearing chlamys. Reverse: K.
Inscriptions: Obverse: None. Reverse: … N … XX (Year 20). Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB III 171
Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype a Constantinopolitan follis of Herakleios, Eudokia Epiphania, and Constantine III.
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