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ID number: BIRBI-R1375 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Caracalla; Rome Denomination: Antoninianus Place made: Rome Culture: Roman Date made: 215 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 2.35 Weight (g): 5.31 Axis (degrees): 135.00 Provenance: Haines 26. W. S. Lincoln, 1920. |
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Description: Obverse: Head of Caracalla, wearing radiate crown, draped, cuirassed, and bearded, facing r. Reverse: Jupiter, naked and standing facing r,. holding thunderbolt in r. and sceptre in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM (Antoninus Pius Augustus Germanicus). Reverse: D M TR P XVIII COS IIII P P (Head of the College of Priests, Tribune for the Eighteenth Time, Consul for the Fourth Time, Father of the Fatherland).
Bibliography: RIC IV 258A
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