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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-R2799
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Constantine I; Rome
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Europe: Italy, Rome
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  312-313
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.30
Weight (g):  4.16
Axis (degrees):  315.00
Provenance:  Haines 3221. Ex P. D. Whitting Collection (purchased at special price of 1/- each), 1957.
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Description:  Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath, draped, facing r., seen from rear. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked, wearing modius, standing facing l., holding patera in r. and cornucopia in l.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: IHP CONSTANTINVS P F HVC (Imperator Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CENIO POPV-L-I ROMHⱵII (The Genius of the Roman People). In Exergue: AS

Bibliography:  RIC VI 293A

Notes:  According to RIC, the [R]S in the exergue of the reverse are mintmarks indicating Rome.

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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
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