Online Collections at UoB - Objects
Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-B3575 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; Carthage Denomination: Solidus Place made: Carthage Culture: Byzantine Date made: 614-615 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 1.85 Weight (g): 4.43 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1132. Herzfelder, June 1962. |

|
Description: Obverse: To the l., bust of Herakleios facing, bearded, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and cross-topped crown. To the r., bust of Constantine III facing, smaller, unbearded, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and cross-topped crown. Between their heads, a cross. Reverse: Cross potent on three steps.
Inscriptions: Obverse: d N ЄRACLIO ЄT ЄRA CO … (Our lord Herakleios and Herakleios Constantine). Reverse: VICTORI A AVCC (Imperial victory). Mint mark: CONOB. Indiction year: Γ (Year 614-615).
Bibliography: MIB III 84a
|