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Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-R2074 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Florian; Lugdunum Denomination: Antoninianus Place made: Europe: France, Lyons Culture: Roman Date made: 275-276 Metal: Silver and base metal Diameter (cm): 2.15 Weight (g): 3.59 Axis (degrees): 45.00 Provenance: Haines 973. W. S. Lincoln, 1928. |
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Description: Obverse: Head of Tacitus, wearing radiate crown and beard, draped and cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Sol, naked but cloaked and radiate, running facing l., raising r. hand and holding whip in l. ; in r. of field, either A, or the end of the whip (apparently detatched and at an odd angle), or part of robe.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C M HN FLORIHNVS P F AVG (Imperator Caesar Marcus Annius Florian Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: PΛCATOR OR-BIS. (The World at Peace). In Exergue: III
Bibliography: RIC V 7
Notes: Traces of silvering, particularly on the reverse. In accordance with RIC, the III in the exergue of the reverse are mintmarks indicating Lyons.
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