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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-R2891
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:  318
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.10
Weight (g):  3.04
Axis (degrees):  225.00
Provenance:  Haines 3344. 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, cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Sol, naked but cloaked and radiate, standing facing l., raising r. hand and holding globe in l.; ᴗ * in field, to l. and r. respectively.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: CONSTΛNTINVS P F ΛVG (Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CLΛRITΛS REIPVBLICHE (The Renown of the Republic). In Exergue: ΓLN

Bibliography:  RIC VII 149

Notes:  According to RIC, the [P]LN in the exergue of the reverse and ᴗ * in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Londinium.

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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
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