Online Collections at UoB - Objects
Go to the Advanced Search
<< Viewing Record 821 of 3000 >>
View : Light Box | List View | Image List | Detailed
 


Your search has been limited to 3000 records. As your search has brought back a large number of records consider using the 'Advanced Search' feature which enables you to use more search terms to bring back a more accurate set of records.
 


Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-R2202
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Probus; Siscia
Denomination:  Antoninianus
Place made:  Europe: Croatia, Sisak
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  276-282
Metal:  Silver and base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.20
Weight (g):  4.24
Axis (degrees):  45.00
Provenance:  Haines 1815. J. H. Daniels, 12 Buxton Road, Brighton, Sussex, 1934.
BIRBI-R2202.jpg

Description:  Obverse: Head of Probus, wearing radiate crown and beard, wearing cuirass and imperial mantle, facing l. Reverse: Concordia, draped, standing facing l., holding patera in r. and double cornucopiae in l.; P in field, to r.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: IMP PROBVS P F HVC (Imperator Probus Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CONCORDIH HVC (Harmony of the Emperor). In Exergue: XXI

Bibliography:  RIC V 661 var.

Notes:  Traces of silvering. In accordance with RIC, the XXI in the exergue of the reverse and the P in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officina) indicating Siscia. As opposed to the RIC type, Probus does not hold an sceptre surmounted by an eagle on this coin.

3 Related People

Siscia
Roman


Haines_Geoffrey-T.jpg
Haines, Geoffrey Colton
British
1899
1981-09-14
Probus
Roman
236
282
<< Viewing Record 821 of 3000 >>