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ID number: BIRBI-R2407 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Victorinus; Colonia Claudia Denomination: Antoninianus Place made: Europe: Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne Culture: Roman Date made: 269-271 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 1.90 Weight (g): 2.77 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Haines 577. W. S. Lincoln, 1923. |
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Description: Obverse: Head of Victorinus, wearing radiate crown and long beard, draped and cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Sol, naked but cloaked and radiate, r. hand raised and holding whip in l.; star in field, to l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C YICT-OΠIIVVS.D.F.HVU (Imperator Caesar Victorinus Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: I-NV-I-CTV-S (Invincible).
Bibliography: RIC V 114
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