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ID number: BIRBI-R2756 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constantine I; Londinium Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: United Kingdom, London Culture: Roman Date made: AD 310 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.50 Weight (g): 3.86 Axis (degrees): 135.00 Provenance: Haines 2561. From the Collection of either the Late Prof. Sir Charles Oman or of Mr C. C. Oman, 1949. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath, draped and cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Sol, naked but radiated and cloaked, standing facing l., raising r. hand and holding up globe; T F in field, to l. and r. respectively.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP CONSTΛNTINVS P I ΠUC (Imperator Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: SOLI INVIC-TO COMITI (To the Invincible Sol, Minister [of the Emperor]). In Exergue: PLN
Bibliography: RIC VI 122
Notes: According to RIC, the PLN in the exergue of the reverse and T F in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Londinium.
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