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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.
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