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ID number: BIRBI-B3351 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: 616-617 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.1 Weight (g): 8.98 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1056. |
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Description: Obverse: To the l., Herakleios facing, standing. To the r., Constantine III facing, standing, smaller, wearing cross-topped crown. Reverse: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … ЄRAC … IЧS PP AVC (Herakleios, eternal Augustus). Reverse: A … ЧII (Year 7). Mint mark: ϴЄC. Control mark: B (2).
Bibliography: MIB III 220
Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype a Constantinopolitan coin, control mark: Γ (3), of an uncertain emperor and denomination.
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