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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-R1292 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Commodus; Rome Denomination: Sestertius Place made: Rome Culture: Roman Date made: 186-187 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.90 Weight (g): 23.60 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 3967. A. H. Baldwin, 1963. |
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Description: Obverse: Head of Commodus, wearing laurel wreath and bearded, facing r. Reverse: Pietas, veiled and draped, standing facing l., dropping incense from patera in r. on lighted altar left and holding incense box in l. Inscriptions: Obverse: M.COMMODVS ANΓ P FELIX ΛVG BRIT (Marcus Commodus Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus Britannicus). Reverse: ^vcɪOH PIETΛT P M TΠ P XII IMP VIII COS v S C (Leader of Piety, Head of the College of Priests, Tribune for the Twelfth Time, Imperator for the Eighth Time, Consul for the Fifth Time, Father of the Fatherland, S C; Translation Disputed). Bibliography: RIC III 494.
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| Rome Roman;Byzantine;Italian | |
| Commodus Roman 161 192 | |
| Haines, Geoffrey Colton British 1899 1981-09-14 | |
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