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ID number: BIRBI-R2770 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 307 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.75 Weight (g): 8.72 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 82. W. S. Lincoln, 1920. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath, 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 A in field, to l. and r. respectively.
Inscriptions: Obverse: CL VAL CONSTHNTINVS NOB C (Flavius Valerius Constantine, Noble Caesar). Reverse: CENIO POP BOM (To The Genius of the Roman People). In Exergue: PTR
Bibliography: RIC VI 719B
Notes: According to RIC, the PTR in the exergue of the reverse and S A in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Treveri.
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