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ID number:  BIRBI-B3383
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Herakleios I; Nikomedia
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Izmit
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  610-611
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  3
Weight (g):  11.38
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 2735.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Herakleios facing, bearded, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and cross-topped helmet with plume and pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: M, cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: … RA … PP … (Herakleios, eternal). Reverse: ANNO I (Year 1). Mint mark: NIKO. Control mark: A (1).

Bibliography:  MIB III 174

Notes:  Overstruck obverse on reverse; struck over a half-follis from the period 498-538.

3 Related People

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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Herakleios I
Byzantine
c.575
641
Nikomedia
Roman; Byzantine


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