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ID number: BIRBI-R1255 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Marcus Aurelius; Rome Denomination: Sestertius Place made: Rome Culture: Roman Date made: 170-171 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 3.25 Weight (g): 32.00 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Haines 2011. W. S. Lincoln, 1928. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Marcus Aurelius, wearing laurel wreath and bearded, facing r. Reverse: Inscription in five lines encircled by a oak-wreath.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP M ΛNTONINVS ΛVC TR P XXV (Imperator Marcus Antoninus Augustus, Tribune for the Twenty-Fifth Time). Reverse: PRIMΓ DECEN-NΛLES COS III S C (The First Period of Ten Years, Consul for the Third Time, S C; Translation Disputed).
Bibliography: RIC III 1006.
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