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ID number:  BIRBI-R1209
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Antoninus Pius; Rome
Denomination:  As
Place made:  Rome
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  153-154
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.90
Weight (g):  9.79
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Haines 265. W. S. Lincoln, 1922.
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Description:  Obverse: Head of Antoninus Pius, wearing laurel wreath and bearded, facing r. Reverse: Annona, standing facing l., holding modius on cippus in r. and branch in l.; to right, a basket of fruit.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: 7NTONINVS ΛVG PI-VS P P TR P XVII (Antoninus Augustus Pius, Father of the Fatherland, Tribune for the Seventeenth Time). Reverse: ΛNNO[]Λ ΛVG COS IIII S.C (Imperial Annona, Consul for the Fourth Time, S C; Translation Disputed).

Bibliography:  RIC III 921.

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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
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