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ID number: BIRBI-R3033 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constantine I; Ticinum Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Italy, Lombardy, Pavia Culture: Roman Date made: 322-325 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 1.90 Weight (g): 3.24 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 3250. 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, facing r. Reverse: Part of inscription in two lines encircled within wreath; ᴗ in wreath, to bottom.
Inscriptions: Obverse: CONSTHN-TINVS AVC (Constantine Augustus). Reverse: D N CONSTHNTINI MHX HVC VOT • X X (Our Lord Constantine, Greatest Augustus; Prayers for Twenty Years). In Exergue: TT
Bibliography: RIC VII 167
Notes: According to RIC, the TT in the exergue of the reverse and ᴗ within the laurel wreath on the reverse are mintmarks (officina) indicating Ticinum.
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