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ID number: BIRBI-R2775 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constantine I; Treveri Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate, Trier Culture: Roman Date made: AD 307-308 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.80 Weight (g): 5.69 Axis (degrees): 315.00 Provenance: Haines 212. W. S. Lincoln, 1920. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath, cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Mars, naked but helmeted and cloaked, walking facing r., holding transverse spear in r. and shield in l.; S A in field, to l. and r. respectively.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP CONSTANTINVS P F AVC (Imperator Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: MHRTI PATRI PROPVCNHTORI (To Mars, the Defending Father). In Exergue: PTR
Bibliography: RIC VI 776
Notes: Die slippage on reverse. According to RIC, the PTR in the exergue of the reverse and S A in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Treveri.
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