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ID number: BIRBI-B3377 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: Decanummium Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 617-618 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.55 Weight (g): 1.52 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4378. A.H. Baldwin, August 1950. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Herakleios facing r., bearded, wearing diadem, cuirass, and paludamentum. Reverse: X, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … NN hЄR … (Our lord Herakleios). Reverse: [ANNO] ЧIII ([Year] 8).
Bibliography: MIB III 232
Notes: Clipped on four sides as though flan cut out from much larger coin.
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