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ID number: BIRBI-B3703 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; Ravenna Denomination: Hexagram Place made: Europe: Italy, Ravenna Culture: Byzantine Date made: 615-632 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 2.5 Weight (g): 6.25 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4095. A.H. Baldwin, 22nd August 1963. |

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Description: Obverse: Herakleios and Constantine III facing, seated on double backless throne. To the l., Herakleios bearded, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand; to the r., Constantine III unbearded, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. A cross between their heads. A border of pellets. Reverse: Cross potent above a globus on three steps, in a wreath
Inscriptions: Obverse: DD NN HERΛ … ЄT HCRΛ CONST PP Λ (Our lords Herakleios and Herakleios Constantine, eternal Augusti). Reverse: DЄVS ADIVTΛ ROMΛNIS (God Help the Romans).
Bibliography: MIB III 153
Notes: Doublestruck on the obverse.
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