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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-R2909
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey; Earle Fox, H. B.
Maker:  Constantine I; Londinium
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Europe: United Kingdom, London
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  318
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.30
Weight (g):  3.71
Axis (degrees):  45.00
Provenance:  Haines 611. Presented by Earle Fox Bequest, 1923.
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Description:  Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath, draped and cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Sol, naked but cloaked and radiate, standing facing l., raising r. hand and holding globe in l.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: CONOTHNTILV... P F HVC (Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: δ...-C-HC CDMITT (To the Invincible Sol, Minister [of the Emperor]). In Exergue: D…

Bibliography:  RIC VII 137

Notes:  The coin has significantly degraded since it was photographed in 1983. According to RIC, the [PLN] in the exergue of the reverse and ᴗ (?) in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officina) indicating Londinium.

4 Related People

Constantine I
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Earle Fox, H. B.
British
1863
21 March 1920
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