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ID number: BIRBI-B3379 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: 612-613 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.5 Weight (g): 1.81 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1390. |
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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: X, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: d N hЄRA IЧ [in retrograde] S PP … (Our lord Herakleios, eternal). Reverse: [ANNO] III ([Year] 3).
Bibliography: MIB III 231a
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