Online Collections at UoB - Objects
Go to the Advanced Search
Viewing Record 1 of 1 


Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B3387
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:  611-612
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  3.05
Weight (g):  10.98
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 2556. R.M. Cunningham, February 1951.
BIRBI-B3387.jpg

Description:  Obverse: Bust of Herakleios facing, bearded, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and helmet with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: M, cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: ∂ N hRACLI … S PЄRP … (Our lord Herakleios, eternal). Reverse: ANNO II (Year 2). Mint mark: NIKO. Control mark: A (1).

Bibliography:  MIB III 174

3 Related People

Nikomedia
Roman; Byzantine


Whitting_Phillip-T.jpg
Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Herakleios I
Byzantine
c.575
641
Viewing Record 1 of 1