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ID number: BIRBI-B3739 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Constans II; Constantinople Denomination: Solidus Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 641-645 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.10 Weight (g): 4.41 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1604. K. Kress, Munich, April 1967, no. 1221. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Constans beardless facing, wearing cross crown with plume and chlamys, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: Cross potent on three steps.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂N CONSτA NτINЧS PP AVS (Our lord Constantine eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTORIA AVʕЧ (Imperial victory). Control mark: Z[reversed] (7). Mint mark: CONOB K.
Bibliography: MIB III 2; DOC II.2 AV2 (Constantine III)
Notes: Traces of overstriking or doublestriking above cross on reverse.
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