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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-R2821
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Constantine I; Galerius; Kyzikos
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Mysia, Kyzikos
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  311
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.45
Weight (g):  7.35
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Haines 3268. Ex P. D. Whitting Collection (purchased at special price of 1/- each), 1957.
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Description:  Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath and moustache, facing r. Reverse: Jupiter, naked but cloaked, standing facing l., holding globe in r. and sceptre in l.; eagle with wreath in beak at feet, to l.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: FL VHL CONSTHNTINVS D F HVC (Flavius Valerius Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: IOVI CONSER-VHTORI HVCC (Jupiter, the Defender of the Emperors). In Exergue: MKVΓ

Bibliography:  RIC VI 80

Notes:  According to RIC, the MKVΓ in the exergue of the reverse are mintmarks indicating Kyzikos.

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