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ID number: BIRBI-R2235 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Probus; Tripoli Denomination: Antoninianus Place made: Lebanon, Tripoli Culture: Roman Date made: 276-282 Metal: Billon Diameter (cm): 2.35 Weight (g): 3.12 Axis (degrees): 135.00 Provenance: Haines 1911. Ex Rev. E. A. Sydenham Collection, 1935. |
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Description: Obverse: Head of Probus, wearing radiate crown and beard, draped and cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Emperor, wearing military attire, standing facing r., holding sceptre surmounted by an eagle in l. and receiving globe in r. from Jupiter, naked but cloaked and helmeted with two angled protusions, standing facing l., holding globe in r. and sceptre in l.; ᴗ in field, to bottom in between figures.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C M HVH PROBVS AVG (Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus). Reverse: CLAMENTIA T-EMP● (A Time of Peace and Calm). In Exergue: KH
Bibliography: RIC V 928
Notes: In accordance with RIC, the K[A] in the exergue of the reverse and the ᴗ in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officina) indicating Tripoli.
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