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ID number:  BIRBI-R2204
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Probus; Siscia
Denomination:  Antoninianus
Place made:  Europe: Croatia, Sisak
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  276-282
Metal:  Silver and base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.30
Weight (g):  3.76
Axis (degrees):  0.00
Provenance:  Haines 3860. Ex A. E. Bagnall Collection, A. H. Baldwin, 1962.
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Description:  Obverse: Head of Probus, wearing radiate crown and beard, draped and cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Felicitas, draped, standing facing l. next to altar to l., holding patera in r. and caduceus in l.; E in field, to r.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: IMP C M HVR PRO8VS HVG (Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus). Reverse: FELICIT-ΛS ΛVC (Harmony of the Soldiers). In Exergue: XXI

Bibliography:  RIC V 675

Notes:  Traces of silvering. In accordance with RIC, the XXI in the exergue of the reverse and the E in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officina) indicating Siscia.

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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
British
1899
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Probus
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