Commemorative medals/Personality or portrait
medal
Composition
Tin
Weight
21.64 g
Diameter
32 mm
Thickness
Shape
Round
Technique
Orientation
Edge
Plain
Period
Notice
Christian Wermuth
Reference(s)
Obverse description
Portrait facing half right. A mitre on the head with a cross adorned with distinct unions. [A caput mitra unionibus distincta cum cruce ornatum]. Lettering all around
Obverse lettering
D · N ·
FLAVIVS HERACLEONAS PERPETVS AVGVST (Translation: Dominus Noster Flavius Heracleonas Perpetus Augustus [Our Lord forever Majestic, Flavius Heracleonas])
Obverse script
Latin
Reverse description
Inscription on 16 lines followed by designer`s initials
Reverse lettering
NATVS CIRCA A· 626
PATRE HERACLIO IMP.
MATRE MARTINA
A PATRE A· 630 CAESAR A· 639
IMPERATOR DICTVS ET TESTAMENTO
SVCCESSOR CVM FRATRE ET MATRE
SED ILLO MATRIS INSIDIIS OCCISO
SOLVS PER SEMESTRE AVGVSTVS
A SENATV IMPERIO NASOQVE VT MATER
LINGVA PRIVATVS ET IN EXILIVM ACTVS
CIRCA MENSEM DECEMBREM A· 641
C · W · (Translation: Born about year 626, father Heraclius Imperator, Mother Martina. From the father year 630, Caesar year 639. The said Emperor and will, heir with his brother and mother, but their mother murdered in a plot. Lone through months August, from the Imperial Senate [nasoque] as mother, language common and driven into exile about the month of December year 641. C W = Christian Wermuth A· = Anno [Year])