Online Collections at UoB - Objects
Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-B4003 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Constans II; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 651-655 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.1 Weight (g): 2.59 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1715. |
|
Description: Obverse: Constans II facing, standing, bearded, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown, holding long cross in r. hand, and globus cruciger in l. hand. Reverse: M, cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … N TȢT O … K … (In this [sign] Conquer). Reverse: ANΛ N … (Renewal). Mint mark: XXX. Control mark: Δ (4).
Bibliography: MIB III 170b
Notes: The XXX in the exergue is either from an undertype, of which there are no other traces; or, it is an imitation.
|