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ID number: BIRBI-B3345 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Herakleios I; Thessalonica Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 610-611 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.95 Weight (g): 12.28 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1060. B. Kent, Lewes, January 1951. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Herakleios facing, bearded, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and cross-topped crown with plume and pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: XXXX; pellet in the centre of the field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: d N hЄR … A … C (Our lord Herakleios, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO I (Year 1). Mint mark: TЄS.
Bibliography: MIB III 216
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