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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-R2812
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):  2.25
Weight (g):  4.06
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Haines 2857. Rev. Sydenham Collection Sale, A. H. Baldwin, 1953.
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Description:  Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath, cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Sol, naked but cloaked and radiate, standing facing l., raising r. hand and holding globe in l.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: IHP C CONSTHNTINVS P F HVG (Imperator Caesar Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: SOLI IN-VI-CTO COMITI (To the Invincible Sol, Minister [to the Emperor]). In Exergue: MOSTP

Bibliography:  RIC VI 85

Notes:  According to RIC, the MOSTP in the exergue of the reverse are mintmarks indicating Ostia.

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Ostia
Roman; Italian


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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
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