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ID number: BIRBI-R0899 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Augustus; Tiberius I; Lugdunum Denomination: Semis Place made: Lyons Culture: Roman Date made: AD 12-14 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 1.90 Weight (g): 4.56 Axis (degrees): 135.00 Provenance: Haines 3092. G. de Falco, 29 Piazza dei Martiri, Naples, 1956. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Tiberius, wearing laurel wreath, facing r. Reverse: Front elevation of the Altar of Lyons, decorated with the corona civica between laurels, these being flanked by male figures; to l. and r., Victories on columns facing one another.
Inscriptions: Obverse: TI CΛISΛR ^… F IMPIRAR VII (Tiberius, Son of Caesar Augustus, Imperator for the seventh time). Reverse: None. In Exergue: ROM ET AVC (To Rome and Augustus).
Bibliography: RIC I 2nd ed. 246
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