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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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