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ID number: BIRBI-B3736 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Herakleios I; Constantinople Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 619-620 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.5 Weight (g): 5.61 Axis (degrees): 90.00 Provenance: Whitting 4551. A.H. Baldwin, February 1950. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Herakleios facing, bearded, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and cross-topped crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: K; cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: d N hЄR … AVC (Our lord Herakleios, Augustus). Reverse: ANNO X (Year 10). Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB III 170
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