TYPE Byzantine Empire, Heraclius (610-641 AD), bronze follis, Sicily mint, struck 631 AD, counterstamped on earlier follis (SB 810) of yr. XXI (630/1 AD), off. 'gamma', 9.47g DESCRIPTION . Obv: Facing crowned busts of Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine, each in crown and chlamys Rev: Latin mintmark "SCs", monogram REFERENCE: SB 883, DO 242b.2 GRADING: EF (c/s), VG/AVF (host), olive green patina ORDER INFO: B2598, $165 Exceptional "short-beard" (S883) Sicily type overall - both sides and both emperors, with decent host coin; of course, the host is hardly S809 (as Sear implies), but rather S810, as detailed in D. Oaks. It is curious that this host coin was quite freshly minted (less than a year old) - something typical only of this countermarked Heraclius Syracuse type - and the present specimen also represents an exception to the rule, described in D. Oaks, of how the c/s systematically defaces the top of the M (rev.) and lower part of the standing emperors (obv.).