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ID number: BIRBI-R2800 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constantine I; Rome Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Italy, Rome Culture: Roman Date made: 312-313 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.35 Weight (g): 4.32 Axis (degrees): 315.00 Provenance: Haines 3343. 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, cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked, wearing modius, standing facing l., holding patera in r. and cornucopia in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP CONSTHNTINVS P F HIIC (Imperator Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CENJO POPV-L-I ROMHNI (The Genius of the Roman People). In Exergue: AQ
Bibliography: RIC VI 294A
Notes: According to RIC, the [R]Q in the exergue of the reverse are mintmarks indicating Rome.
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