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ID number: BIRBI-R3034 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constantine I; Ticinum Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Italy, Lombardy, Pavia Culture: Roman Date made: 325 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.00 Weight (g): 2.74 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 3706. Ex Lockett Collection, A. H. Baldwin, 1961. |
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Description: Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath, facing r. Reverse: Part of inscription in two lines encircled within wreath; ᴗ in wreath, to bottom.
Inscriptions: Obverse: CONSTHN-TINVS HVC (Constantine Augustus). Reverse: D N CONSTHNTINI MHᴧ HVC VOT • X X X (Our Lord Constantine, Greatest Augustus; Prayers for Thirty Years). In Exergue: TT
Bibliography: RIC VII 174
Notes: According to RIC, the TT in the exergue of the reverse and ᴗ within the laurel wreath on the reverse are mintmarks (officina) indicating Ticinum.
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