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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-R2756
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Constantine I; Londinium
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Europe: United Kingdom, London
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  AD 310
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.50
Weight (g):  3.86
Axis (degrees):  135.00
Provenance:  Haines 2561. From the Collection of either the Late Prof. Sir Charles Oman or of Mr C. C. Oman, 1949.
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Description:  Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath, draped and cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Sol, naked but radiated and cloaked, standing facing l., raising r. hand and holding up globe; T F in field, to l. and r. respectively.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: IMP CONSTΛNTINVS P I ΠUC (Imperator Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: SOLI INVIC-TO COMITI (To the Invincible Sol, Minister [of the Emperor]). In Exergue: PLN

Bibliography:  RIC VI 122

Notes:  According to RIC, the PLN in the exergue of the reverse and T F in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Londinium.

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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
British
1899
1981-09-14
Londinium



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