Online Collections at UoB - Objects
Go to the Advanced Search
Viewing Record 1 of 1 


Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B4193
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:  Follis
Place made:  Europe: Italy, Sicily, Syracuse
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  642-643
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.35
Weight (g):  4.38
Axis (degrees):  225.00
Provenance:  Whitting 7093.
BIRBI-B4193.jpg

Description:  Obverse: Bust of Constans II facing, unbearded, wearing chlamys, and cross-topped crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: m.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: … hP … NS … (Emperor Constantine). Reverse: ANΛ … Є … (Renewal). Mint mark: SCs.

Bibliography:  MIB III 204c

Notes:  Overstruck; undertype unclear. Clipped at least four times as though flan cut out from much larger coin.

3 Related People

Constans II
Byzantine
630
668
Syracuse
Greek; Roman; Byzantine


Whitting_Phillip-T.jpg
Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Viewing Record 1 of 1