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ID number:  BIRBI-R3102
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Constantine I; Kyzikos
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Mysia, Kyzikos
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  324-325
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  1.90
Weight (g):  3.23
Axis (degrees):  45.00
Provenance:  Haines 3272. 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: Camp gate with no door, two turrets; star above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: CONSTAN-TINVS HVC (Constantine Augustus). Reverse: PROVIDEN-TIHE HVCC (To the Foresight of the Emperors). In Exergue: SMKΓ

Bibliography:  RIC VII 24

Notes:  According to RIC, the SMKΓ in the exergue of the reverse are mintmarks indicating Kyzikos.

3 Related People

Constantine I
Roman
272
337
Kyzikos
Roman; Byzantine


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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
British
1899
1981-09-14
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