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ID number:  BIRBI-R3065
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Constantine I; Heraclea
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Marmara Ereğlisi
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  324
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  1.95
Weight (g):  2.97
Axis (degrees):  0.00
Provenance:  Haines 3274. 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, facing r. Reverse: Part of inscription in two lines within wreath; * within wreath, to bottom.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: CONSTHN-TINVS HVC (Constantine Augustus). Reverse: D N CONSTHNTINI MHX HVC VOT • X X (Our Lord Constantine, Greatest Augustus; Prayers for Twenty Years of Rule). In Exergue: SMHB

Bibliography:  RIC VII 60

Notes:  According to RIC, the SMHB in the exergue of the reverse and * within the laurel wreath on the reverse are mintmarks (officina) indicating Heraclea.

3 Related People

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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
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1899
1981-09-14
Constantine I
Roman
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