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ID number: BIRBI-R2678 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey; Crete Hoard Maker: Severus II; Heraclea Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Marmara Ereğlisi Culture: Roman Date made: 305-306 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.90 Weight (g): 9.93 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 344. Presented by Earle Fox Bequest, 1921 - found in hoard in Crete. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Severus, wearing laurel wreath and beard, facing r. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked, wearing modius, standing facing l., pouring liquor from patera in r. and cornucopia in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: FL VHL SEVERVS NOBIL CHES (Flavius Valerius Severus, Noble Caesar). Reverse: CⱵNIO POPV-L-I ROMHNI (The Genius of the Roman People). In Exergue: HTΔ
Bibliography: RIC VI 25
Notes: According to RIC, the HTΔ in the exergue of the reverse are mintmarks indicating Heraclea.
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