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ID number: BIRBI-R3005 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constantine I; Rome Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Italy, Rome Culture: Roman Date made: 321 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 1.85 Weight (g): 3.01 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 4057. Miss M. F. Gnade per A. H. Baldwin, 1965. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath, facing r. Reverse: Part of inscription in two lines encircled within wreath, with three crossed circles to top, l. and r.
Inscriptions: Obverse: CONSTAN-TINVS AVG (Constantine Augustus). Reverse: D N C•NSTANTINI MΛX AVC VOT • X X (Our Lord Constantine, Greatest Augustus; Vows for Twenty Years). In Exergue: RP
Bibliography: RIC VII 237
Notes: According to RIC, the RP in the exergue of the reverse are mintmarks indicating Rome.
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