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ID number: BIRBI-B3618 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): 1.9 Weight (g): 5.02 Axis (degrees): 270.00 Provenance: Whitting 3031. October 1955; ex Lord Bagot Collection, c. 1700. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Herakleios facing, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and crown with pendilia and trefoil ornament, 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: … CLIO PP A (Herakleios, eternal Augustus). Reverse: None. Mint mark: KRTG. Indiction year: Є (Year 616-617).
Bibliography: MIB III 234
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