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ID number: BIRBI-R2859 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Licinius I; Heraclea Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Marmara Ereğlisi Culture: Roman Date made: 321-324 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.05 Weight (g): 3.62 Axis (degrees): 315.00 Provenance: Haines 3563. Presented by B. W. M. Horsfield, 1960. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Licinius I, wearing radiate crown and beard, draped and cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Jupiter, naked but cloaked, standing facing l., holding Victory on globe in r. and leaning on sceptre with l.; eagle holding wreath in beak at feet, to l., and captive at feet, to r.; IIΓ X in field, to r.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C VHL LICIN LICINIVS P F AVC (Imperator Caesar Valerius Licinianus Licinius Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: IOVI CONS-ERVHTORI (To Jupiter, the Defender). In Exergue: SMHA
Bibliography: RIC VII 52
Notes: According to RIC, the SMHA in the exergue of the reverse and IIΓ X in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Heraclea.
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