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ID number: BIRBI-R2983 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constantine I; Rome Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Italy, Rome Culture: Roman Date made: 317 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 1.95 Weight (g): 2.93 Axis (degrees): 45.00 Provenance: Haines 3228. 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: Sol, naked but cloaked and radiate, standing facing l., raising r. hand and holding globe in l.; A, to l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP CONSTHNTINIIS P E HIIC (Imperator Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: SOLI IN-VI-CTO COMITI (To the Invincible Sol, Minister [of the Emperor]). In Exergue: RP
Bibliography: RIC VII 78
Notes: According to RIC, the RP in the exergue of the reverse and A in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officina) indicating Rome.
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