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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.

3 Related People

Nikomedia
Roman; Byzantine


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Herakleios I
Byzantine
c.575
641
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