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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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