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Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-R2372 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Postumus; Colonia Claudia Denomination: Antoninianus Place made: Europe: Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne Culture: Roman Date made: 260-269 Metal: Silver and base metal Diameter (cm): 2.10 Weight (g): 4.75 Axis (degrees): 225.00 Provenance: Haines 1771. A. H. Baldwin, 1933. |
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Description: Obverse: Head of Postumus, wearing radiate crown and long beard, draped and cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Asclepius, bare-chested and draped, standing facing l. and leaning on his staff with serpent wrapped around the bottom; globe at feet, to r.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG (Imperator Caesar Postumus Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: SALVS E-XERCITI (To the Health of the Army).
Bibliography: RIC V 327
Notes: Silvered.
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