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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-R2223 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Probus; Kyzikos Denomination: Antoninianus Place made: Eurasia: Mysia, Kyzikos Culture: Roman Date made: 276-282 Metal: Billon Diameter (cm): 2.20 Weight (g): 4.84 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 1908. Ex Rev. E. A. Sydenham Collection, 1935. |
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Description: Obverse: Head of Probus, wearing radiate crown and beard, wearing cuirass and imperial mantle, holding sceptre, formed by pellets, surmounted by eagle, facing l. Reverse: Sol, naked but cloaked and radiate, riding frontally but facing l. in spread quadriga, raising r. and holding whip in l.; C M in field, to bottom. Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C M AVR PROBVS P P AVC (Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: SO-LI INVICT-O (The Invincible Sol). In Exergue: XXIS Bibliography: RIC V 911 Notes: In accordance with RIC, the XXIS in the exergue of the reverse and the C M in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officina) indicating Kyzikos. |
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3 Related People | |
| Kyzikos Roman; Byzantine | |
| Haines, Geoffrey Colton British 1899 1981-09-14 | |
| Probus Roman 236 282 | |
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