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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-R2679
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey; Earle Fox, H. B.; Crete Hoard
Maker:  Severus II; Constantius; Heraclea
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Marmara Ereğlisi
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  305-306
Metal:  Silver and base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.75
Weight (g):  7.36
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Haines 109. Presented by Earle Fox Bequest, 1921 - found in hoard in Crete.
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Description:  Obverse: Head of Severus, wearing laurel wreath and beard, facing r. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked, wearing modius, standing facing l., pouring liquor from patera in r. and cornucopia in l.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: FL VHL SCVERVS NOBIL CΛES (Flavius Valerius Severus, Noble Caesar). Reverse: CFNIO PODV-L-I ROMΛNI (The Genius of the Roman People). In Exergue: THE

Bibliography:  RIC VI 25

Notes:  According to RIC, the HTE in the exergue of the reverse are mintmarks indicating Heraclea.

6 Related People

Crete Hoard



Haines_Geoffrey-T.jpg
Haines, Geoffrey Colton
British
1899
1981-09-14
Severus II
Roman

307
Earle Fox, H. B.
British
1863
21 March 1920
Constantius I
Roman

306
Heraclea
Roman


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