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ID number: BIRBI-B4199 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constans II; Syracuse Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Italy, Sicily, Syracuse Culture: Byzantine Date made: 647-652 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.4 Weight (g): 5.78 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 3057. B.A. Seaby, 1955. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Constans II facing, with moustache and long beard, wearing chlamys with fibula, and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: M; monogram of Constans II above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: None. Reverse: None. Mint mark: SCL.
Bibliography: MIB III 207
Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype a half-follis of either Herakleios or Constans II, ( … N … X = Year 10?), of uncertain mint.
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