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ID number: BIRBI-B3484 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): 3.5 Weight (g): 10.94 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5373. B.A. Seaby, September 1966. |
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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, wearing cross-topped crown. A cross between their heads. Reverse: M, chrismon above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … D ИИ … Є7S LINS … AVC (Garbled Inscription). Reverse: AVNO ϚI (Year 7). Mint mark: SЄLISЧ. Control mark: B [in retrograde] (2).
Bibliography: MIB III 192
Notes: Overstruck obverse on obverse; undertype a follis of Phokas, of uncertain mint and year.
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