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ID number: BIRBI-B3617 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Herakleios I; Carthage Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Carthage Culture: Byzantine Date made: 616-617 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.05 Weight (g): 6.22 Axis (degrees): 270.00 Provenance: Whitting 1300. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Herakleios facing, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and cross-topped crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: XX; a pellet between the numerals, and a cross above. A star in the l. of the field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D N C … ACVS (Our lord Herakleios, Augustus). Reverse: None. Mint mark: KRTG. Indiction year: Є (Year 616-617).
Bibliography: MIB III 234
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