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ID number: BIRBI-R3527 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Julian; Sirmium Denomination: Solidus Place made: Europe: Serbia, Sremska Mitrovica Culture: Roman Date made: 361-363 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.15 Weight (g): 4.57 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 34. B. A. Seaby, May 1950, ex Fane Dickson Collection. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Julian, facing r. draped, cuirassed, diademed, bearded. Reverse: soldier, cuirassed, with trophy in r. hand and grabing kneeling captive with l. hand.
Inscriptions: Obverse: FL CL IVLIH NVS PP HVG (Flavius Claudius Julian eternal Augustus). Reverse: VIRTVS EXERCI TVS ROMANORVM (virtue of the army of the Romans). Mint mark: [star] SIRM [laurel wreath] (mint of Sirmium).
Bibliography: RIC VIII 96
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