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ID number: BIRBI-R2814 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constantine I; Galerius; Carthage Denomination: Follis Place made: Carthage Culture: Roman Date made: 307 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.70 Weight (g): 9.48 Axis (degrees): 225.00 Provenance: Haines 3178. 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 and beard, facing r. Reverse: Africa, in long drapery with elephant-skin headdress, standing frontally with head facing l., holding standard in r. and tusk in l.; lion with captured bull at feet, to l., and SE F in field, to l. and r. respectively.
Inscriptions: Obverse: FL VHL CONSTHNTINVS NOP CHBS (Flavius Valerius Constantine, Noble Caesar). Reverse: CONSERVATO-R HFRICHE SVHE (Defender of his Africa). In Exergue: Δ
Bibliography: RIC VI 58
Notes: According to RIC, the Δ in the exergue of the reverse and SE F in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Carthage.
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