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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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