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ID number: BIRBI-B4006 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: 653-654 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.3 Weight (g): 2.16 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1702. |

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Description: Obverse: Constans II facing, standing, bearded, wearing chlamys and crown, holding long cross in r. hand, and globus in l. hand. Reverse: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … Ȣ … (This). Reverse: … Λ N … O Ϛ (Renewal). Year: XIII (Year 13). Control mark: A (1).
Bibliography: MIB III 170b
Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype a year thirty, three figure coin of Herakleios, of uncertain mint and denomination.
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