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ID number: BIRBI-B4175 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Constans II; Syracuse Denomination: Semissis Place made: Europe: Italy, Sicily, Syracuse Culture: Byzantine Date made: 642-652 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 1.7 Weight (g): 2.23 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1085. A.H. Baldwin, February 1962; "From a wartime sale". |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Constans II facing r., unbearded, wearing cuirass, paludamentum, and diadem. Reverse: Cross potent on a globe; I in the r. of the field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂ N CONSTAN τINЧS P AV (Our lord Constantine, eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTORIA AVGЧ (Imperial victory). Control mark: Ө:·
Bibliography: MIB III 97
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