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ID number: BIRBI-R2823 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constantine I; Galerius; Antioch Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Antioch Culture: Roman Date made: 309 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.40 Weight (g): 6.15 Axis (degrees): 315.00 Provenance: Haines 4086. Ex P. D. Whitting Collection by Exchange, 1966. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath, facing r. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked, wearing modius, standing facing l., pouring from patera in r. and holding cornucopia in l.; E O in field, to r.
Inscriptions: Obverse: FL VAL CONSTHNTINVS PIL AVG (Flavius Valerius Constantine, Son of the Emperor). Reverse: CEVIO F-IL HVGC• (The Genius of the Son of the Emperors). In Exergue: HNT
Bibliography: RIC VI 111
Notes: According to RIC, the [A]NT in the exergue of the reverse and E O in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Antioch.
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