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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B3692
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Herakleios I; Ravenna
Denomination:  Solidus
Place made:  Europe: Italy, Ravenna
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  610-613
Metal:  Gold
Diameter (cm):  2
Weight (g):  4.46
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 0403. J.C.S. Rashleigh, January 1953.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Herakleios facing, bearded, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and cross-topped crown with plume and pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: Cross potent on four steps.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: D N HЄRAC LIVS PP AVC (Our lord Herakleios, eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTORI Λ AVCC (Imperial victory). Mint mark: CONOB. Control mark: H (8).

Bibliography:  MIB III 109a

3 Related People

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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Herakleios I
Byzantine
c.575
641
Ravenna
Roman;Byzantine;Italian


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