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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-LR0115 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Gratian; Thessalonica Denomination: Solidus Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Late Roman Date made: 378-383 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.07 Weight (g): 4.48 Axis (degrees): 315.00 Provenance: Whitting 1137. A. H. Baldwin, August 1962, from a pre-1939 collection. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Gratian, facing r. draped, cuirassed, diademed. Reverse: two emperors, draped, enthroned, both holding an orb with their r. hand and l. one holding mappa with l. hand, between them a cross, between their feet a palm branch, behind them a Victory. Inscriptions: Obverse: D N GRATIA NVS P F AVG (our lord Gratian pious fortunate Augustus). Reverse: VICTOR IA AVGG (Victory of the Augusti). Mint mark: TESO B (Thessalonica 2). Bibliography: RIC IX 34a
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| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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