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ID number: BIRBI-R2768 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constantine I; Galerius; Treveri Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate, Trier Culture: Roman Date made: AD 306-307 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.70 Weight (g): 10.22 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 3170. Ex P. D. Whitting Collection (purchased at special price of 1/- each), 1957. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath, draped and cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked, covering l. shoulder and loins, 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 VAL CONSTNNTINVS NOB C (Flavius Valerius Constantine, Noble Caesar). Reverse: CENIO POPV-LI ROMHIII (To The Genius of the Roman People). In Exergue: PTR
Bibliography: RIC VI 668C
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.
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