Byzanz: Arabo-Byzantiner

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Events

Created

When	642-705 CE
Where	Akhmim [Probably]

Commissioned

Who	Heraclius (575-641)

Owned

Who	Heinrich Wefels (-1931)
When	1917-1931

Was depicted (Actor)

Who	Constantine III (612-641)

Was depicted (Actor)

Who	Heraclius (575-641)

Relation to places

Africa

Keywords

Bronze Christliche Ikonographie Coin Early Middle Ages Early Middle Ages Emperor Herrscherrepräsentation Middle Ages Portrait

Description

Front: Panzerbüsten des Heraclius I. (l.) und des Heraclius Constantinus (r.) in der Vorderansicht. Zwischen ihnen ein langes Kreuz.
Rear: Ein Kreuz zwischen A-Ɯ. Im Abschnitt ΠAH.

Material/Technique

Bronze; cast

Measurements

Diameter: 14 mm
Weight: 1.20 g

Part of

Die neue Weltmacht - Das arabische Kalifat (10)

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Literature

150 Nr. 142 (Panopolis (?), 642-705 n. Chr.).
C. Foss, Arab-Byzantine Coins. An Introduction, with a Catalogue of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection (2008) 104.
J. Sabatier, Description générale des monnaies byzantines 1 (1862) 281 Nr. 88 (vgl. zur Münzstätte J. W. Kubitschek, Beiträge zur frühbyzantinischen Numismatik, NZ 29, 1897, 194-195).
W. Wroth, Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Britisch Museum I (1908) 229 Nr. 322.