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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-R2745 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Licinius; Alexandria Denomination: Follis Place made: Africa: Egypt, Lower Egypt, Alexandria Culture: Roman Date made: AD 308-310 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.55 Weight (g): 6.77 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 1031. Ex R. G. Peckitt Collection, 1928. |
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Description: Obverse: Head of Licinius, wearing laurel wreath, with parallel ties and pointed truncation (β), and beard, facing r. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked, wearing modius, standing facing l., pouring from patera in r. and holding cornucopia in l.; K P B in field, to l., bottom r. and mid r. respectively. Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C VHL LIC LICINIVS P F HVG (Imperator Caesar Valerius Licinianus Licinius Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CENIO IMP-ERHTORIS (The Genius of the Emperor as Commander in Chief). In Exergue: HLE Bibliography: RIC VI 105B Notes: According to RIC, the [A]LE in the exergue of the reverse and K P B (anticlockwise) are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Alexandria. |
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3 Related People | |
| Haines, Geoffrey Colton British 1899 1981-09-14 | |
| Alexandria | |
| Licinius I Roman c.263 325 | |
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