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ID number: BIRBI-B4530ADD 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: Solidus Place made: Europe: Italy, Ravenna Culture: Byzantine Date made: 629-632 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.25 Weight (g): 4.46 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G881, Lucerne, 7th April 1960. |

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Description: Obverse: Busts of Herakleios to l. and Constantine III to r., Herakleios with moustache and long beard, Constantine III with short beard, both wearing crown with cross and pendilia and chlamys, cross floating between them. Reverse: Cross potent on four steps.
Inscriptions: Obverse: DDNNHERACLIUSЄTЄRACONSPP (Our lords Herakleios and Herakleios Constantine, perpetual augusti) Reverse: VICTORI AAVCC (Imperial victory) Mint mark: CONOB, Officina mark: H
Bibliography: MIB.3.133c1
Notes: Both obverse and reverse die identities the same as MIB.3.113c1.
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