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ID number: BIRBI-B4070 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: Half-Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 661-668 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.9 Weight (g): 1.88 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3308. Dumbarton Oaks Duplicate, 27th November 1958. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Constans II facing, with moustache and long beard, wearing paludamentum and crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. K in the r. of the field. Reverse: K, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: None. Reverse: AN … N (Renewal). Control mark: … (Untranslatable control mark).
Bibliography: MIB III 185
Notes: Possibly overstruck.
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