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ID number: BIRBI-B3471 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: Half-Follis Place made: Eurasia: Mysia, Kyzikos Culture: Byzantine Date made: 610-611 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.25 Weight (g): 5.23 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 4550. Duke of Argyle, March 1951. |

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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: K, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ N hRACLI PЄRP A … (Our lord Herakleios, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO I (Year 1). Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB III 187
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