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ID number: BIRBI-B3395 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): 3.1 Weight (g): 11.27 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2560. |

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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: … hЄ … P AVC (Herakleios, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO III (Year 3). Mint mark: NIKO. Control mark: B (2).
Bibliography: MIB III 174
Notes: Overstruck obverse on obverse; undertype a Nikomedia follis of an uncertain emperor. Clipped on three sides as though flan cut out from much larger coin.
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