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ID number: BIRBI-B3961 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: 643-644 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.7 Weight (g): 6.39 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1686. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Constans II facing, unbearded, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: M.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … h PЄR … NST (Emperor Constantine). Reverse: ANA NЄO Ϛ (Renewal). Year: III (Year 3). Control mark: Δ (4).
Bibliography: MIB III 166
Notes: Overstruck obverse on obverse; undertype a year 20-30, Constantinopolitan follis of Herakleios and Constantine III (a K in the r. of the field of the undertype obverse).
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