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ID number: BIRBI-B3393 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: 612-613 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.15 Weight (g): 12.33 Axis (degrees): 270.00 Provenance: Whitting 2559. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Herakleios facing, bearded, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and cross-topped helmet with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … hRACL … (Herakleios). Reverse: ANNO III (Year 3). Mint mark: NIKO. Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB III 174
Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse on a year two follis of Phokas, in turn overstruck, obverse on obverse, on a follis of Justin II and Sophia.
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