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ID number: BIRBI-R2928 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constantine I; Treveri Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate, Trier Culture: Roman Date made: 313-315 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.25 Weight (g): 4.25 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 1514. W. S. Lincoln, 1932. |

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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.; T F in field, to l. and r. respectively.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP CONSTHNTINVS AVC (Imperator Constantine Augustus). Reverse: SOLI INVIC-TO COMITI (To the Invincible Sol, Minister [of the Emperor]). In Exergue: DTR
Bibliography: RIC VII 40
Notes: According to RIC, the [P]TR in the exergue of the reverse and T F in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Treveri.
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