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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-R2791
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Constantine I; Lugdunum
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Europe: France, Lyons
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  AD 309-310
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.25
Weight (g):  4.73
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Haines 1512. W. S. Lincoln, 1932.
BIRBI-R2791.jpg

Description:  Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath, draped and cuirassed, facing r., seen from rear. Reverse: Sol, naked but cloaked and radiate, raising r. hand and holding globe in l.; F T in field, to l. and r. respectively.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: IMP CONSTHNTINVS P F HVC (Imperator Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: SOLI INVIC-TO COMITI (The Invincible Sol, Minister [of the Emperor]). In Exergue: PLC

Bibliography:  RIC VI 310

Notes:  According to RIC, the PLC in the exergue of the reverse and F T in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Lugdunum.

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