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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-R2757
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):  2.30
Weight (g):  4.42
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Haines 362. Presented by Earle Fox, 1921.

Description:  Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath, cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Sol, naked but radiate 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 F HVC (Imperator Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: SOLI INVIC-TO COMITI (To the Invincible Sol, Minister [of the Emperor]). In Exergue: PLN

Bibliography:  RIC VI 121A

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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