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ID number: BIRBI-R1519 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Severus Alexander; Rome Denomination: Dupondius Place made: Rome Culture: Roman Date made: AD 231-235 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.55 Weight (g): 11.84 Axis (degrees): 45.00 Provenance: Haines 3531. Spink, 1959. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Severus Alexander, wearing radiate crown and short-beard, drapery over l. shoulder, facing r. Reverse: Providentia, draped and standing frontally, head facing l., holding two corn-ears in r. over modius and cornucopiae in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: LMP ALEXANDER PIVS AVC (Imperator Alexander Pius Augustus). Reverse: PEOVIDE-NTIA AVC S C (Imperial Generosity; S C - Translation Disputed).
Bibliography: RIC IV 643g
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