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ID number:  BIRBI-R1972
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Claudius II Gothicus; Mediolanum
Denomination:  Antoninianus
Place made:  Europe: Italy, Lombardy, Milan
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  268-70
Metal:  Billon
Diameter (cm):  2.05
Weight (g):  3.91
Axis (degrees):  0.00
Provenance:  Haines 89. W. H. Valentine, 1917.
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Description:  Obverse: Head of Claudius, wearing radiate crown and beard, draped, facing r. Reverse: Spes, draped and crowned, walking facing l., holding flower in r. and raising robe with l.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: IMP CLHVDIVS P F HVC (Imperator Claudius Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: SPES P-VBLICH (The Hope of the Public). In Exergue: P.

Bibliography:  RIC V 168

Notes:  In accordance with RIC, the P on the exergue of the reverse is a mintmark indicating Mediolanum.

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