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ID number: BIRBI-B3478 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Herakleios I; Constantine III; Seleukeia-in-Isauria Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Mersin, Silifke Culture: Byzantine Date made: 616-617 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.15 Weight (g): 11.50 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2995. A.H. Baldwin, August 1955. |
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Description: Obverse: To the l., bust of Herakleios facing, bearded, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown. To the r., bust of Constantine III facing, smaller, unbearded, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown. A cross between their heads. Reverse: M, chrismon above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: \7 ИИ h … (Garbled Inscription). Reverse: ANNO ϚI (Year 7). Mint mark: SЄL … Control mark: B [in retrograde] (2).
Bibliography: MIB III 192
Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype a half-follis of Maurice.
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