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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-R2378
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Postumus; Mediolanum
Denomination:  Antoninianus
Place made:  Europe: Italy, Lombardy, Milan
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  260-269
Metal:  Silver and base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.10
Weight (g):  3.97
Axis (degrees):  0.00
Provenance:  Haines 1773. A. H. Baldwin, 1933.
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Description:  Obverse: Head of Postumus, wearing radiate crown and long beard, draped and cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Fortuna, draped, standing facing l. with foot on prow, holding patera in r. and rudder in l.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: ɪMP POSTVMVS HVC (Imperator Postumus Augustus). Reverse: CONvORD b-Q¯... (Harmony with the Cavalry).

Bibliography:  RIC V 373

Notes:  Traces of silvering.

3 Related People

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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
British
1899
1981-09-14
Postumus
Roman

269
Mediolanum
Roman; Ostrogothic


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