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ID number: BIRBI-R3023 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constantine I; Ticinum Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Italy, Lombardy, Pavia Culture: Roman Date made: 317 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.05 Weight (g): 3.11 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Haines 3249. 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.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP CONSTHNTINVS P E HVC (Imperator Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: SOLI INVI-C-TO COMITI (To the Invincible Sol, Minister [to the Emperor]). In Exergue: ST
Bibliography: RIC VII 64
Notes: According to RIC, the ST in the exergue of the reverse are mintmarks indicating Ticinum.
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