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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-R2826 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constantine I; Alexandria Denomination: Follis Place made: Africa: Egypt, Lower Egypt, Alexandria Culture: Roman Date made: 308-310 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.50 Weight (g): 6.92 Axis (degrees): 135.00 Provenance: Haines 3289. Ex P. D. Whitting Collection by Exchange, 1957. |
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Description: Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath, with divergent ties and pointed truncation (α), facing r. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked, wearing modius, standing facing l., pouring from patera in r. and holding cornucopia in l.; K A P in field, to l., to bottom r. and mid r. respectively. Inscriptions: Obverse: FL VAL CONSTHNTINVS P F AVG (Flavius Valerius Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CENIO IMP-ERATORIS (The Genius of the Emperor as Commander in Chief). In Exergue: HLE Bibliography: RIC VI 104 Notes: According to RIC, the [A]LE in the exergue of the reverse and K P A (anticlockwise) in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Alexandria. |
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| Alexandria | |
| Haines, Geoffrey Colton British 1899 1981-09-14 | |
| Constantine I Roman 272 337 | |
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