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ID number:  BIRBI-B3496
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; Isauria
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Isauria
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  617-618
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  3.4
Weight (g):  13.63
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 3096. B.A. Seaby, 7th December 1956.
BIRBI-B3496.jpg

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. A cross between their heads. Reverse: M.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: σo N hЄRA Cτ hЄRA … ([Inferred] Our lords Herakleios and Herakleios). Reverse: ANNO … II ([Inferred] Year 8). Mint mark: … CAYR. Control mark: A (1).

Bibliography:  MIB III 196

Notes:  Overstruck obverse on obverse on a follis of Herakleios, in turn overstruck obverse on reverse on a follis of either Tiberius II or Maurice.

4 Related People

Herakleios I
Byzantine
c.575
641
Constantine III
Byzantine
612
641
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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Isauria



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