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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

3 Related People

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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Julian
Roman
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363
Sirmium
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