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ID number: BIRBI-B3389 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 Weight (g): 11.81 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3249. Spink, 24th October 1958. |
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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: D N hRACL … V … (Our lord Herakleios, Augustus). Reverse: ANNO II (Year 2). Mint mark: NIKO. Control mark: B (2).
Bibliography: MIB III 174
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