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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-R2232 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Probus; Tripoli Denomination: Antoninianus Place made: Lebanon, Tripoli Culture: Roman Date made: 276-282 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.25 Weight (g): 3.66 Axis (degrees): 135.00 Provenance: Haines 1781. A. H. Baldwin, 1933. |
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Description: Obverse: Head of Probus, wearing radiate crown and beard, draped and cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Emperor, wearing military attire, standing facing r., holding sceptre in l. and receiving globe in r. from Jupiter, naked but cloaked and helmeted with two angled protusions, standing facing l., holding globe in r. and sceptre in l.; laurel wreath in field, to top in between figures. Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F ΛVG (Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CLYMENIIH T-EMP (A Time of Peace and Calm). In Exergue: XXI Bibliography: RIC V 927 Notes: In accordance with RIC, the XXI in the exergue of the reverse and the [laurel wreath] in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officina) indicating Tripoli. |
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3 Related People | |
| Haines, Geoffrey Colton British 1899 1981-09-14 | |
| Tripoli Roman; Frankish | |
| Probus Roman 236 282 | |
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