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ID number: BIRBI-R2788 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): 6.29 Axis (degrees): 135.00 Provenance: Haines 3198. 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: Prince, in military attire, standing facing r., holding transverse spear in r. and globe in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C CONSTHNTINVS P F HVC (Imperator Caesar Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: PRINCIPI IV-VENT B R P NHT (The Prince of Youth, Born for the Welfare of the State). In Exergue: PLC
Bibliography: RIC VI 270
Notes: According to RIC, the PLC in the exergue of the reverse are mintmarks indicating Lugdunum.
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