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ID number: BIRBI-R2787 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): 2.90 Weight (g): 6.58 Axis (degrees): 135.00 Provenance: Haines 4035. Ex Whitting Collection, 1965. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath, draped and cuirassed, facing r., seen from rear. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked, covering l. shoulder and loins, wearing modius, standing facing l., holding patera in r. over altar, to l., and cornucopia in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C CONSTHNTINVS P F HVC (Imperator Caesar Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: GENIO PᴖΓ ROM (The Genius of the Roman People). In Exergue: PLC
Bibliography: RIC VI 255
Notes: According to RIC, the PLC in the exergue of the reverse are mintmarks indicating Lugdunum.
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