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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-R2024
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Aurelian; Siscia
Denomination:  Antoninianus
Place made:  Europe: Croatia, Sisak
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  270-275
Metal:  Billon
Diameter (cm):  2.15
Weight (g):  3.78
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Haines 1353. A. H. Baldwin, 1931.
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Description:  Obverse: Head of Aurelian, wearing radiate crown and beard, cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Sol, naked but cloaked and radiate, standing facing l., r. hand raised and holding whip in l.; two captives, bound at feet, and S in field, to bottom.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: IMP C HVRELIANVS HVC (Imperator Caesar Aurelian Augustus). Reverse: ORI-ENS HVC (The Rising Sun of the Emperor). In Exergue: XXIS.

Bibliography:  RIC V 255

Notes:  In accordance with RIC, the XXIS in the exergue of the reverse and the S in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officina) indicating Siscia.

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Aurelian
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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
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