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ID number:  BIRBI-R1207
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Antoninus Pius; Rome
Denomination:  As
Place made:  Rome
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  150-151
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.75
Weight (g):  10.56
Axis (degrees):  135.00
Provenance:  Haines 3955. A. H. Baldwin, 1962.
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Description:  Obverse: Head of Antoninus Pius, wearing laurel wreath and bearded, facing r. Reverse: Annona, draped and seated facing l. on low seat, holding two corn-ears in extended r. hand over modius (on l.) with corn-ears and cornucopiae in l.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: ... IIBEL HADR ΛNTO-NINVS ΛVC DIVS I P (Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus Augustus Pius, Father of the Fatherland). Reverse: TR POT XIIII COS IIII S.C (Tribune for the Fourteenth Time, Consul for the Fourth Time, S C; Translation Disputed). In Exergue: ΛNNONΛ ΛVC (Imperial Annona).

Bibliography:  RIC III 880.

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