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Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-R2202 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Probus; Siscia Denomination: Antoninianus Place made: Europe: Croatia, Sisak Culture: Roman Date made: 276-282 Metal: Silver and base metal Diameter (cm): 2.20 Weight (g): 4.24 Axis (degrees): 45.00 Provenance: Haines 1815. J. H. Daniels, 12 Buxton Road, Brighton, Sussex, 1934. |
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Description: Obverse: Head of Probus, wearing radiate crown and beard, wearing cuirass and imperial mantle, facing l. Reverse: Concordia, draped, standing facing l., holding patera in r. and double cornucopiae in l.; P in field, to r.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP PROBVS P F HVC (Imperator Probus Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CONCORDIH HVC (Harmony of the Emperor). In Exergue: XXI
Bibliography: RIC V 661 var.
Notes: Traces of silvering. In accordance with RIC, the XXI in the exergue of the reverse and the P in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officina) indicating Siscia. As opposed to the RIC type, Probus does not hold an sceptre surmounted by an eagle on this coin.
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