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ID number: BIRBI-B3490 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: 616-618 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.2 Weight (g): 13.16 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2790. Ray Baldwin, May 1950. |

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Description: Obverse: To the l., Herakleios facing, standing, wearing chlamys, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. To the r., Constantine III facing, standing, smaller, wearing chlamys, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: M, chrismon above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: 77 UU h … VЧ [in retrograde] CЄS (Garbled Inscription). Reverse: ANNO Ϛ … ([Inferred] Year 7-8). Mint mark: S … Control mark: B (2).
Bibliography: MIB III 193
Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype a year seven, Antioch follis of Justin II and Sophia.
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