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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.
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