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ID number: BIRBI-B4126 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Stewart, James R. Maker: Constans II; Carthage Denomination: Half-Follis Place made: Carthage Culture: Byzantine Date made: 642-647 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.2 Weight (g): 5.04 Axis (degrees): 45.00 Provenance: Whitting 5674. 30th January 1968; ex James R. Stewart Collection; ex G.C. Haines 1945. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Constans II facing, unbearded, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: A cross; X to the l., and X to the r.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … CTAN TINVS PP A (Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: None. Mint mark: CRT …
Bibliography: MIB III 196a
Notes: Overstruck obverse on reverse; undertype a year 1, Carthaginian half-follis of Constans II (MIB III 195).
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