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ID number: BIRBI-R2786 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constantine I; Lugdunum Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: France, Lyons Culture: Roman Date made: AD 307-308 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.75 Weight (g): 6.49 Axis (degrees): 45.00 Provenance: Haines 3196. Ex P. D. Whitting Collection (purchased at special price of 1/- each), 1957. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath, draped and cuirassed, facing r., seen from rear. Reverse: Constantine, in military attire, standing frontally with head facing l., holding globe in r. and sceptre in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C CONSTHNTINVS P C HVC (Imperator Caesar Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CONSTANTINO P AVG B R P NHT (To Constantine, Prince, Emperor, born for the welfare of the State). In Exergue: PHC
Bibliography: RIC VI 252
Notes: According to RIC, the P[L]C in the exergue of the reverse are mintmarks indicating Lugdunum.
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