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Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-R2812 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constantine I; Ostia Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Italy, Rome, Ostia Culture: Roman Date made: 312-313 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.25 Weight (g): 4.06 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 2857. Rev. Sydenham Collection Sale, A. H. Baldwin, 1953. |
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Description: Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath, cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Sol, naked but cloaked and radiate, standing facing l., raising r. hand and holding globe in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IHP C CONSTHNTINVS P F HVG (Imperator Caesar Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: SOLI IN-VI-CTO COMITI (To the Invincible Sol, Minister [to the Emperor]). In Exergue: MOSTP
Bibliography: RIC VI 85
Notes: According to RIC, the MOSTP in the exergue of the reverse are mintmarks indicating Ostia.
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