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ID number: BIRBI-R2766 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 312-313 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.20 Weight (g): 3.05 Axis (degrees): 135.00 Provenance: Haines 2855. 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 radiate and cloaked, standing facing l., raising r. hand and holding globe in l.; * in field, to l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP CONSTΛNTINVS P ΛVC (Imperator Constantine Pius Augustus). Reverse: SOLI INV-IC-TO COMITI (To the Invincible Sol, Minister [of the Emperor]). In Exergue: PLN
Bibliography: RIC VI 281
Notes: According to RIC, the PLN in the exergue of the reverse and * in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officina) indicating Londinium.
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