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ID number: BIRBI-B3682 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; Rome Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Europe: Italy, Rome Culture: Byzantine Date made: 610-622 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.65 Weight (g): 3.47 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1394. A.H. Baldwin, April 1949. |

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Description: Obverse: To the l., bust of Herakleios facing, wearing paludamentum, and trefoil-topped crown. To the r., bust of Constantine III facing, smaller, wearing paludamentum, and trefoil-topped crown. A cross between their heads. Reverse: XX; cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: II N CRΛCL IO AVIII ([Inferred] Our lord Herakleios, Augustus). Reverse: None. Mint mark: ROM.
Bibliography: MIB III 243a
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