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ID number: BIRBI-B3448 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Herakleios I; Kyzikos Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Mysia, Kyzikos Culture: Byzantine Date made: 612-613 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.5 Weight (g): 12.78 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 939. A.H. Baldwin, 1955. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Herakleios facing, bearded, wearing cuirass, and helmet with plume and pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ N hRACLI … AV … (Our lord Herakleios, Augustus). Reverse: ANNO III (Year 3). Mint mark: KVZ. Control mark: B (2).
Bibliography: MIB III 184
Notes: Overstruck; undertype unclear.
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