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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-R1971
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Claudius II Gothicus; Mediolanum
Denomination:  Antoninianus
Place made:  Europe: Italy, Lombardy, Milan
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  268-70
Metal:  Billon
Diameter (cm):  2.00
Weight (g):  3.18
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Haines 3447. Spink, 1959.
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Description:  Obverse: Head of Claudius, wearing radiate crown and beard, draped, facing r. Reverse: Providentia, draped, standing facing l., holding baton in r. and sceptre in l.; at feet, globe to l.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: IMP CLHIIDIVS P F HVC (Imperator Claudius Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: PROV-I-D HVC (The Foresight of the Emperor). In Exergue: T.

Bibliography:  RIC V 163 var.

Notes:  In accordance with RIC, the T on the exergue of the reverse is a mintmark indicating Mediolanum. As opposed to the RIC type, the figure on the reverse holds a sceptre instead of a cornucopia in l.

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