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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-R2984
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Constantine I; Rome
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Europe: Italy, Rome
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  317
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.20
Weight (g):  3.23
Axis (degrees):  0.00
Provenance:  Haines 3227. Ex P. D. Whitting Collection (purchased at special price of 1/- each), 1957.
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Description:  Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath, draped and cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Sol, naked but cloaked and radiate, standing facing l., raising r. hand and holding whip in l.; A, to l.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: IMP GONSTHNTINVS P F HVC (Imperator Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CLHFITHS R-EIΓVBLICHE (To the Renown of the Republic). In Exergue: AT

Bibliography:  RIC VII 80

Notes:  According to RIC, the [R]T in the exergue of the reverse and A in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officina) indicating Rome.

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