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ID number: BIRBI-R2811 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constantine I; Ostia Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Italy, Rome, Ostia Culture: Roman Date made: 312-313 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.50 Weight (g): 4.25 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 3345. 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 C CONSTANTINVS P F AVG (Imperator Caesar Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: GENIO P-OΓ ROM (The Genius of the Roman People). In Exergue: NOSTQ
Bibliography: RIC VI 74
Notes: According to RIC, the [M]OSTQ in the exergue of the reverse are mintmarks indicating Ostia.
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