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ID number: BIRBI-B3783 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: 646-647 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.00 Weight (g): 4.48 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1517. K. Kress Munich, 15th March 1966, no. 842. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Constans with short pellet beard facing, wearing cross crown and chlamys, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: Cross potent on three steps, S in r. of field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ∂N CONSτIN τINЧS PP AVI (Our lord Constantine eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTOR…A AVʕЧ (Imperial victory). Control mark: Z[reversed] (7). Mint mark: CONOB.
Bibliography: MIB III 11
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