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ID number: BIRBI-R2234 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: Silver and base metal Diameter (cm): 2.25 Weight (g): 3.71 Axis (degrees): 135.00 Provenance: Haines 3520. Presented by G. Fallani, 58A Via dei Babuino, Rome, 1959. |
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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.; * in field, to bottom in between figures.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C M HVR XROBVS P Γ AVG (Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CLEMENTI-H TE... (A Time of Peace and Calm). In Exergue: XXI
Bibliography: RIC V 927
Notes: Silvered. In accordance with RIC, the XXI in the exergue of the reverse and the * in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officina) indicating Tripoli.
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