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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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