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ID number: BIRBI-R2913 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constantine I; Lugdunum Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: France, Lyons Culture: Roman Date made: 314-315 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.10 Weight (g): 3.15 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 3205. 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 and cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Sol, naked but cloaked and radiate, standing facing l., raising r. hand and holding globe in l.; T F in field, to l. and r. respectively.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP CONSTHNTINVS D F AUC (Imperator Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CƆLI UNVIC-TO COMITI (To the Invincible Sol, Minister [of the Emperor]). In Exergue: DLC
Bibliography: RIC VII 16
Notes: According to RIC, the [P]LG in the exergue of the reverse and T F in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Lugdunum.
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