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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-R2907
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey; Earle Fox, H. B.
Maker:  Constantine I; Londinium
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Europe: United Kingdom, London
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  316
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.15
Weight (g):  3.09
Axis (degrees):  225.00
Provenance:  Haines 366. Presented by Earle Fox Bequest, 1921.
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Description:  Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath, cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Sol, naked but cloaked and radiate, standing facing l., raising r. hand and holding globe in l.; S P in field, to l. and r. respectively.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: IMP CONSTΛNTINVP P ΛVC (Imperator Constantine Pius Augustus). Reverse: SOLI INVIC-TO GOMITI (To the Invincible Sol, Minister [of the Emperor]). In Exergue: MSL

Bibliography:  RIC VII 68 var.

Notes:  According to RIC, the MSL in the exergue of the reverse and S P in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Londinium. As opposed to the type in RIC, this coin includes the P in the obverse legend.

4 Related People

Constantine I
Roman
272
337
Londinium



Haines_Geoffrey-T.jpg
Haines, Geoffrey Colton
British
1899
1981-09-14
Earle Fox, H. B.
British
1863
21 March 1920
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