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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-R2669
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey; Oman, Charles
Maker:  Severus II; Constantius; Treveri
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Europe: Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate, Trier
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  305-307
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.80
Weight (g):  11.81
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Haines 355. Presented by Ex Sir Charles Oman Collection, 1921.
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Description:  Obverse: Head of Severus, wearing laurel wreath and beard, cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked, covering l. shoulder and loins, and head towered, standing facing l., holding patera in r. and cornucopia in l.; S F in field, to l. and r. respectively.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: FL VHL SEVERVS NOB C (Flavius Valerius Severus, Noble Caesar). Reverse: CENIO POPV-LI ROMHNI (The Genius of the Roman People). In Exergue: PTR

Bibliography:  RIC VI 667A

Notes:  According to RIC, the PTR in the exergue of the reverse and S F in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Treveri.

5 Related People

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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
British
1899
1981-09-14
Constantius I
Roman

306
Severus II
Roman

307
Treveri
Roman


Oman, Charles
British
12 January 1860
23 June 1946
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