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ID number: BIRBI-B3938 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Constans II; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 642-643 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.65 Weight (g): 5.96 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1720. |

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Description: Obverse: Constans II facing, standing, unbearded, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown, holding long cross in r. hand, and globus cruciger in l. hand. Reverse: m, star above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: CN TȢT … NIKA (In this [sign] Conquer). Reverse: ANA NC … ([Inferred] Renewal). Year: II (Year 2). Control mark: Γ (3).
Bibliography: MIB III 162c
Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype a coin of Herakleios, Constantine III, and Eudokia Epiphania, of uncertain mint and denomination.
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