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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4182 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Constans II; Syracuse Denomination: Tremissis Place made: Sicily: Syracuse Culture: Byzantine Date made: 641-668 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 1.50 Weight (g): 1.47 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1618 - bt Spink 1942, G. C. Haines exchange December 1967. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Constans r. wearing chlamys and diadem. Reverse: Cross potent, C in r. of field. Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂N CONSτAN τINЧS PP A (Our Lord Constantine eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTORIA AYҀЧ (Imperial Victory). Control mark: Є· (5). Mint mark: CONOB. Bibliography: MIB III 107 Notes: Forgery? Too perfectly round and bubbling under Constans's nose as though plated. |
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3 Related People | |
| Syracuse Greek; Roman; Byzantine | |
| Constans II Byzantine 630 668 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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