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ID number: BIRBI-B3719 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; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 629-639 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.65 Weight (g): 6.22 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 7789. Meridian, 14th April 1971. |

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Description: Obverse: (Uppermost layer) To the l., Herakleios facing, standing, wearing military attire, holding sceptre in r. hand. To the r., Constantine III facing, standing, wearing chlamys and crown. Reverse: (Uppermost layer) M; cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: None. Reverse: … NNO … ([Inferred] Year 20-30). Mint mark: None visible. Control mark: Δ (4).
Bibliography: (Uppermost layer) MIB III 164a; (Countermark) MIB III Km.1a
Notes: Overstruck obverse on obverse; undertype a coin of uncertain emperor and mint, control mark: A (1). Single-faced countermark on the reverse of a monogram of Herakleios.
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