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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-R2749
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey; Oman, Charles
Maker:  Constantine I; Galerius; Londinium
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Europe: United Kingdom, London
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  AD 307
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.70
Weight (g):  7.62
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Haines 2560. From the Collection of either the Late Prof. Sir Charles Oman or of Mr C. C. Oman, 1949.
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Description:  Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath, cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked, covering l. shoulder and loins, head towered, standing facing l., holding patera in r. and cornucopia in l.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: FL VHL CONSTΛNTINVS NOB C (Flavius Valerius Constantine, Noble Caesar). Reverse: CENIO POP ROM (The Genius of the Roman People). In Exergue: PLN

Bibliography:  RIC VI 88B

Notes:  According to RIC, the PLN in the exergue of the reverse are mintmarks indicating Londinium.

5 Related People

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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
British
1899
1981-09-14
Londinium



Constantine I
Roman
272
337
Oman, Charles
British
12 January 1860
23 June 1946
Galerius
Roman

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