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ID number: BIRBI-R1193 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Antoninus Pius; Rome Denomination: Sestertius Place made: Rome Culture: Roman Date made: 140-144 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 3.40 Weight (g): 28.25 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Haines 1042. W. S. Lincoln, 1928. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Antoninus Pius, wearing laurel wreath and bearded, facing r. Reverse: Salus, draped and standing facing l., feeding snake coiled around altar with r. and holding sceptre in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ΛNTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P GOS III (Antoninus Augustus Pius, Father of the Fatherland, Tribune, Consul for the Third Time). Reverse: SΛLVS ΛVG S C (Imperial Health, S C; Translation disputed).
Bibliography: RIC III 635.
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