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ID number: BIRBI-R3046 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constantine I; Siscia Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Croatia, Sisak Culture: Roman Date made: 320-321 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 1.95 Weight (g): 3.51 Axis (degrees): 45.00 Provenance: Haines 2859. Rev Sydenham Collection Sale, A. H. Baldwin, 1953. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath, facing r. Reverse: Part of inscription in two lines encircled by wreath.
Inscriptions: Obverse: CONSTHN-TINVS AVG (Constantine Augustus). Reverse: D N CONSTHNTINI MHX HVC VOT • X X (Our Lord Constantine, Greatest Augustus; Prayers for Twenty Years of Rule). In Exergue: ESIS*
Bibliography: RIC VII 159
Notes: According to RIC, the ESIS* in the exergue of the reverse are mintmarks indicating Siscia.
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