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ID number: BIRBI-B3455 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Herakleios I; Kyzikos Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Mysia, Kyzikos Culture: Byzantine Date made: 613-614 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.2 Weight (g): 12.43 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 2256. Ex Signorelli Collection, Rome, March 1953. |
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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: … hRA … PЄRPR AV (Herakleios, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO IIII (Year 4). Mint mark: KYZ. Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB III 184
Notes: Overstruck obverse on obverse; undertype a double figure coin of uncertain emperor.
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