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ID number: BIRBI-B3385 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): 3.25 Weight (g): 11.79 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2744. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Herakleios facing, bearded, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and helmet with plume and pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … ЄRACL I … P AVC (Herakleios, eternal Augustus). Reverse: … NNO I (Year 1). Mint mark: … IKO. Control mark: B (2).
Bibliography: MIB III 174
Notes: Overstruck obverse on obverse; undertype a follis of 498-538. In between the undertype and the overtype another possible overstrike, obverse on obverse, on a coin of Constantinople.
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