Online Collections at UoB - Objects
Go to the Advanced Search
Viewing Record 1 of 1 


Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B3349
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; Thessalonica
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  614-615
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  3.05
Weight (g):  11.06
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 1055.
BIRBI-B3349.jpg

Description:  Obverse: To the l., Herakleios facing, standing, bearded, wearing chlamys, and crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. To the r., Constantine III facing, standing, smaller, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. A cross between their heads. Reverse: M, cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: … NN … LIЧS PP AV … (Our lord Herakleios, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO Ч (Year 5). Mint mark: ϴЄC. Control mark: B (2).

Bibliography:  MIB III 220

Notes:  Overstruck obverse on obverse; undertype a follis of Phokas, of uncertain mint and year.

4 Related People

Thessalonica



Herakleios I
Byzantine
c.575
641
Whitting_Phillip-T.jpg
Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Constantine III
Byzantine
612
641
Viewing Record 1 of 1